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Frida: The Making of an Icon

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Francis Bacon

1909–1992

Sketch [Figure in a Framework] c.1959–61
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Figure in a Landscape

Francis Bacon
1945

Dog

Francis Bacon
1952

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion

Francis Bacon
1944
On display at Tate Britain part of Modern and Contemporary British Art

Study for Portrait of Van Gogh IV

Francis Bacon
1957

Reclining Woman

Francis Bacon
1961

Seated Figure

Francis Bacon
1961

Study for Portrait on Folding Bed

Francis Bacon
1963
On display at Tate Britain part of Modern and Contemporary British Art

Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne

Francis Bacon
1966
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Artist as subject

Francis Bacon

Lucian Freud
1952

Bacon I

R.B. Kitaj
1968–9
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Bacon II

R.B. Kitaj
1968–9
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Francis Bacon

Gary Hume
1998

Triptych August 1972

Francis Bacon
1972
On display at Tate Britain part of Modern and Contemporary British Art

Symposium I

Helen Lessore
1974–77

Mirror

Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA
1964–6
On display at Tate Britain part of Modern and Contemporary British Art

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Homage to Bacon

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Letter from Francis Bacon to Erica Brausen, addressed Salisbury, South Rhodesia

Francis Bacon, recipient: Erica Brausen
22 February 1951
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Letter from Francis Bacon to Erica Brausen, addressed Tangier, Morocco

Francis Bacon, recipient: Erica Brausen
date not known
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Untitled drawing of three rooms approached by a ladder

Francis Bacon
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Incomplete letter with drawn lines

Francis Bacon
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