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Head I est un tableau de Francis Bacon issu d'une série de six tableaux de 1948...

Le tableau est conservé dans la collection de Richard S. Zeisler à New York...

• Portail de la peinture
• Portail des années 1940
• Portail de l’Irlande

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[en] Head I

Head I is a relatively small oil and tempera on hardboard painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon. Completed in 1948, it is the first in a series of six heads, the remainder of which were painted the following year in preparation for a November 1949 exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in London.[1] Like the others in the series, it shows a screaming figure alone in a room, and focuses on the open mouth.[2] The work shows a skull which has disintegrated on itself and is largely a formless blob of flesh.[3] The entire upper half has disappeared, leaving only the jaw, mouth and teeth and one ear still intact. It is the first of Bacon's paintings to feature gold background railings or bars; later to become a prominent feature of his 1950s work, especially in the papal portraits where they would often appear as enclosing or cages around the figures.[4] It is not known what influences were behind the image; most likely they were multiple – press or war photography, and critic Denis Farr detects the influence of Matthias Grünewald.[5]

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- [fr] Head I

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[ru] Голова I

«Голова I» (англ. Head I) — картина британского художника ирландского происхождения Фрэнсиса Бэкона, созданная в 1948 году. Она написана маслом и темперой на ДВП и стала первой в серии работ, созданных художником для своей первой персональной выставки в Ганноверской галерее, в Лондоне[1]. Остальные версии серии, в отличие от «Головы I», были написаны уже в год проведения этой выставки (1949), в рамках подготовки к ней.

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