Triptych Inspired by T.S. Eliot's Poem "Sweeney Agonistes"

Triptych by Francis Bacon

Triptych Inspired by T.S. Eliot's Poem "Sweeney Agonistes"
Artist	Francis Bacon
Year	1967
Location	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Triptych Inspired by T.S. Eliot's Poem "Sweeney Agonistes" is a 1967 triptych by British painter and artist Francis Bacon. It is a part of the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ Smith, Roberta (21 May 2009). "If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon's Would Shriek". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
^ Peppiatt, Michael (2008). Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma. London: Skyhorse. p. 281.
^ Sylvester, David (2001). About Modern Art. Pimlico.

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Francis Bacon (artist)

List of paintings

Crucifixions

Crucifixion (1933)
Wound for a Crucifixion (1933)
Fragment of a Crucifixion (1950)

Figures

Figure in a Landscape (1945)
Painting 1946 (1946)
Study for Crouching Nude (1952)
Two Figures (1953)
Three Studies from the Human Head (1953)
Study for Portrait II (After the Life Mask of William Blake) (1955)
Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe (1968)
Study for a Bullfight, Number 2 (1969)
Three Studies of the Male Back (1970)
Blood on the Floor (painting) (1986)

Head series

Head I (1949)
Head II (1949)
Head III (1949)
Head IV (1949)
Head V (1949)
Head VI (1949)

Popes

Study after Velázquez (1950)
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953)
Figure with Meat (1954)
Untitled (Pope) (c. 1954)
Study from Innocent X (1962)
Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971 (1971)

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944)
Three Studies for a Crucifixion (1962)
Three Figures in a Room (1964)
Crucifixion (1965)
Triptych Inspired by T.S. Eliot's Poem "Sweeney Agonistes" (1967)
Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendants (1968)
Triptych, 1976 (1976)
Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus (1981)
Second Version of Triptych 1944 (1988)

Black Triptychs

Triptych–August 1972 (1972)
Triptych, May–June 1973 (1973)

Male portraits

Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer (1964)
Portrait of George Dyer Talking (1966)
Three Studies for George Dyer (1967)
Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud (1967)
Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969)
Portrait of Michel Leiris, 1976 (1976)

Female portraits

Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (1963)
Three Studies for a Portrait of Muriel Belcher (1966)
Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho (1967)

Self-portraits

Three Studies for Self Portrait (1973)
Self-portrait (1973)
Three Studies for Self-Portrait (1979)
Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 (1985–86)

Summary articles

Related

Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (1981 book)
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998 film)

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