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Francis Bacon (28 October – 28 April ) was an Irish-born British painter.

Early life

At that time, all of Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom.

His father, army Captain Anthony Edward Mortimer Bacon, known as Eddy, was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to an English father and an Australian mother. Eddy was a veteran of the Boer War, a racehorse trainer, and grandson of Major-GeneralAnthony Bacon.

Sir francis bacon biography for kids At that time, all of Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom. Bacon was raised by the family nanny , Jessie Lightfoot, from Cornwall , known as "Nanny Lightfoot", a maternal figure who remained close to him until her death. The family moved house often, moving between Ireland and England several times, leading to a sense of displacement which remained with Bacon throughout his life. They returned to Ireland after the First World War. Bacon did not begin to paint until his late twenties, having drifted in the late s and early s as an interior decorator, bon vivant and gambler.

Bacon was raised by the family nanny, Jessie Lightfoot, from Cornwall, known as "Nanny Lightfoot", a maternal figure who remained close to him until her death.

The family moved house often, moving between Ireland and England several times, leading to a sense of displacement which remained with Bacon throughout his life.

They returned to Ireland after the First World War.

Career

Bacon did not begin to paint until his late twenties, having drifted in the late s and early s as an interior decorator, bon vivant and gambler. He said that his artistic career was delayed because he spent too long looking for subject matter that could sustain his interest.

His breakthrough came with the triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.

Sir francis bacon biography for kids printable Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans January 22 , — April 9 , was an English philosopher , statesman , spy , freemason and essayist. He was knighted in , created Baron Verulam in , and created Viscount St Albans in ; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death. He began his professional life as a lawyer, but he has become best known as an philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. His works establish and popularize an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method. Induction implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation, and testing of hypotheses.

From the mids he mainly produced portraits of friends, either as single, diptych or triptych panels. Following the death of his lover George Dyer in (memorialised in his Black Triptychs, and a number of posthumous portraits) his art became more sombre, inward-looking and preoccupied with the passage of time and death. The climax of his later period is marked by the masterpieces Study for Self-Portrait () and Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, –86.

Despite his bleak outlook, Bacon was charismatic, articulate and well-read.

Bacon's subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.

Rejecting various classifications of his work, Bacon said he strove to render "the brutality of fact." He built up a reputation as one of the giants of contemporary art with his unique style.

Bacon said that he saw images "in series", and his work, which numbers in the region of extant paintings along with many others he destroyed, typically focused on a single subject for sustained periods, often in triptych or diptych formats.

Since his death, Bacon's reputation has grown steadily, and his work is among the most acclaimed, expensive and sought-after on the art market.

In the late s a number of major works, previously assumed destroyed, including early s pope paintings and s portraits, re-emerged to set record prices at auction.

Death

While on holiday, Bacon was admitted to the private Clinica Ruber, Madrid in His chronic asthma, which had plagued him all his life, had developed into a more severe respiratory condition and he could not talk or breathe very well.

He died of a heart attack on 28 April

Auction value

By Bacon was the most expensive living artist after one of his triptychs sold at Sotheby's for over $6 million.

Sir francis bacon works Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the scientific method and his works remained influential even in the late stages of the Scientific Revolution. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. He believed that science could be achieved by the use of a sceptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. Although his most specific proposals about such a method, the Baconian method , did not have long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance and possibility of a sceptical methodology makes Bacon one of the later founders of the scientific method.

In , actress Sophia Loren consigned Study for Portrait II () from the estate of her late husband Carlo Ponti at Christie's. It was auctioned for the then record price of £ million ($ million).

In , the Triptych, , sold at Sotheby's for € million ($ million), then a record for a work by Bacon and the highest price paid for a postwar work of art at auction up to In , Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold at Christie's New York for $ million, surpassing both Triptych and in auctioned value, and more importantly claiming the record for highest auction price of a work of art at that time, a title previously held by the fourth version of Edvard Munch's Scream and now held by Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi.

Images for kids

• Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, Oil and pastel on Sundeala board.

  Tate Britain, London

• Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes,

• The site of Bacon's relocated studio, Dublin

See also

In Spanish: Francis Bacon (pintor) para niños