About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: September Morn, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, Triptych, May-June 1973, Nighthawks, The Scream, Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision, Changi Murals, The Jack Pine, American Gothic, Fragment of a Crucifixion, A Family, America 500 Years, Myra, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Faust, Automat, The Split of Life, Lebanon, Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz, The West Wind, Grupo Santa Helena, Art, Life and the other thing, No. 5, 1948, Place des Martyres, Nude Sitting on a Divan, Othello, Dogs Playing Poker, The Hiroshima Panels, Study for a Self-Portrait-Triptych, 1985-86, Christina's World, The Night, Second Version of Triptych 1944, Figure with Meat, The Blue Kitchen, The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli, A Walk Around the Hotel Courtyard, Acatlan, The Sleeping Gypsy, The Madonna of Port Lligat, Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, Office at Night, White Center, The City Rises, Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, The First Tractor, Voice of Fire, Suprematist Composition, Russian Schoolroom, The Sick Child, Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Gilded Cage, Broadway Boogie-Woogie, Victory Boogie-Woogie, Die grosse Nacht im Eimer, Chop Suey, Office in a Small City, Return to order, Gray Tree, Study for Crouching Nude, Cliff Dwellers, Convergence, La Toile Daligram, Tableau I. Excerpt: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion is a 1944 triptych painted by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon. The work is based on the Eumenides-or Furies-of Aeschylus' The Oresteia, and depicts three writhing anthropomorphic creatures set against a flat burnt orange background. Three Studies was executed in oil paint and pastel on Sundeala fibre board and completed within the space of two weeks. The triptych summarises themes explored in Bacon's previous paintings, inc..
