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Francis Bacon

1909 - 1992

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Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures. He said that he saw images "in series", and his work, which numbers in the region of 590 extant paintings along with many others he destroyed, typically focused on a single subject for sustained periods, often in triptych or diptych formats. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francis Bacon is the 119th most popular painter (down from 65th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Painter.

Francis Bacon is most famous for his essays, which were a major contribution to the scientific revolution.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Francis Bacon ranks 119 out of 2,023. Before him are Pontormo, Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Yayoi Kusama, Simone Martini, Andrea del Sarto, and Parmigianino. After him are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Juan Gris, Giorgio de Chirico, Raja Ravi Varma, Annibale Carracci, and Pierre Bonnard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Francis Bacon ranks 11. Before him are Simone Weil, Osamu Dazai, James Mason, Edward Tatum, Mohammed Daoud Khan, and U Thant. After him are Andrei Gromyko, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Peter Drucker, Kwame Nkrumah, Victor Borge, and Stanislaw Ulam. Among people deceased in 1992, Francis Bacon ranks 12. Before him are Friedrich Hayek, Astor Piazzolla, Menachem Begin, Mikhail Tal, Olivier Messiaen, and John Cage. After him are Barbara McClintock, Giovanni Falcone, Li Xiannian, Daniel Bovet, Karl Carstens, and Ernst Happel.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Francis Bacon ranks 17 out of 549. Before him are John Scotus Eriugena (810), Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), Brigid of Kildare (451), Bram Stoker (1847), Edmund Burke (1729), and Michael Gambon (1940). After him are Eddie Jordan (1948), Sinéad O'Connor (1966), George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (1449), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769), William Rowan Hamilton (1805), and Pierce Brosnan (1953).

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Among PAINTERS In Ireland

Among painters born in Ireland, Francis Bacon ranks 1. After him are William Orpen (1878), Paul Kane (1810), Harry Clarke (1889), and Lily Williams (1874).

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