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Francis Bacon collaborated with printmakers to make color lithographs after his paintings. This print reprises a painting that the artist made in 1965 as part of his ongoing series of angst-filled works inspired by Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X. In contrast to the Art Center's painting by Bacon, Study after Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953, in this work the Pope is seated on a small grassy hill.

Source: News, October November December, 2004.


Publisher
Institut de Recherche et Coordination acoustique/Musique for Centre Popidou, Paris
DimensionsFrame: 49 1/4 × 37 × 2 in. (125.1 × 94 × 5.1 cm)
Sheet: 45 7/8 × 30 5/16 in. (116.5 × 77 cm)
Image: 37 3/8 × 27 3/16 in. (95 × 69 cm)
Accession Number 2004.6
Classificationsprint
SignedFrancis Bacon (l,r graphite)
Inscriptions54/60 (l,l graphite)
Edition54/60
Study from Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sam Francis
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sam Francis
1957
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sam Francis
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sam Francis
1972
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sam Francis
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Francis Alÿs
2002
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Francis Place
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sam Francis
1987
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Peggy Bacon
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Unknown Associated Press photographer
April 6, 1968