List of paintings by Francis Bacon
This is an incomplete list of paintings by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992).
1930s
- c.1929–30
- Painting (Oil on canvas, 91.5 cm × 61 cm, Private Collection (long term loan to the Tate Gallery))[1]
- 1933
- Crucifixion (Oil on canvas, 60.5 cm × 47 cm, Private collection of Damien Hirst (Murderme), London)[2]
- c.1936
- Figures in a Garden (aka Seated Figure, The Fox and the Grapes, and Goering and his Lion Cub) (Oil on canvas, 74 cm × 94 cm, Tate Gallery, London)[3]
1940s
- 1944
- Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (Oil and pastel on Sundeala board, 94 cm × 74 cm (37 in × 29 in), Tate, London) (large triptych)
- 1945
- Figure in a landscape (Oil on canvas, 144.8 cm × 128.3 cm, Tate, London)[2]
- 1945–46
- Figure Study I (Oil on canvas, 123 cm × 105.5 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh)[4]
- Figure Study II (Oil on canvas, 145 cm x 129 cm, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield)[2]
- 1946
- Painting (Oil and pastel on linen, 198 cm × 132 cm (77+7⁄8 in × 52 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City)[5]
- 1947–48
- Head I (Oil and tempera on hardboard, 100.3 cm × 74.9 cm (39.5 x 29.5 in), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)[6]
- 1949
- Head II (Oil on canvas, 80 x 63.6 cm (31.4 x 25 in), Ulster Museum, Belfast)[7]
- Head III (Oil on canvas, 81 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in), Private collection)[8]
- Head IV (Man with a Monkey) (Oil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm, (32.4 x 26 in) Private collection)[9]
- Head V (Oil on canvas) Private collection)[9]
- Head VI (Oil on canvas, 93.2 cm × 76.5 cm (36.6 x 30.1in), Arts Council Collection, London)[10]
- Study from the human body (Oil on canvas, 147.2 × 130.6 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)[11]
1950s
- 1950
- Man at Curtain (Oil and cotton wool on canvas, 140 × 108.5 cm (55 × 42 ⅝ in), The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, permanent loan to Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen)
- Fragment of a Crucifixion (Oil and cotton wool on canvas, 140 × 108.5 cm (55 × 42 ¾ in), Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven)
- Study for a Figure (Oil and cotton wool on canvas, 140 × 108.5 cm (55 × 42 ¾ in), Private Collection)
- Study after Velázquez (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), The Steven and Alexander Cohen Collection)
- 'Study after Velázquez' (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Private Collection)
- Painting (Oil on canvas, 198 × 132 cm (78 × 52 in), Leeds Museum and Galleries, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds)
- 1951
- Figure with Monkey (Oil on canvas, 66 × 56 cm (26 × 22 in), Private Collection)
- Head (Oil on canvas, 62.9 × 53.3 cm (24 ¾ × 21 in), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland)
- Study for Nude (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Private Collection)
- Portrait of Lucian Freud (Oil and sand on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester University, Manchester)
- Pope I (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Collection, Aberdeen)
- Pope II (Oil and sand on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim)
- Pope III (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Private Collection)
- 'Crouching Nude' (Oil on canvas, 196.2 × 135.2 cm (77 ¼ × 53 ¼ in), Private Collection)
- 'Figure' (Oil on canvas, 198.1 × 137.2 cm (78 × 54 in), Private Collection)
- 1952
- Study for Crouching Nude (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit)
- House in Barbados (Oil on canvas, 66 × 56 cm (26 × 22 in), Private Collection)
- Dog (Oil and sand on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Tate Gallery, London)
- Landscape (Oil on canvas, 139.5 × 108.5 cm (55 × 42 ¾ in), Private Collection)
- Study of a Head (Oil on canvas, 50 × 40.5 cm (19 ¾ × 16 in), Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven)
- Study for a Head (Oil and sand on canvas, 66 × 56 cm (26 × 22 in), Jane Davis Lang)
- Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, 51 × 41 cm (20 × 16 in), Private Collection)
- Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in), Private Collection, Belgium)
- Study for Head (Oil on canvas, 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in), Private Collection)
- Landscape (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh)
- Study of Figure in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.)
- Man Kneeling in Grass (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Private Collection, Milan)
- Elephant Fording a River (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Private Collection)
- Rhinoceros (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Destroyed by the artist)
- Dog (Oil on canvas, 199 × 138 cm (78 ¼ × 54 ¼ in), Private Collection)
- Dog (Oil on canvas, 198 × 138.5 cm (78 × 54 ½ in), Private Collection)
- Landscape, South of France (Oil on canvas, 127 × 101 cm (50 × 39 ¾ in), Private Collection)
- Man Eating a Leg of Chicken (Oil and sand on canvas, 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in), Private Collection)
- Man in a Chair (Oil on canvas, 60.5 × 50 cm (23 ¾ × 19 ¾ in), Private Collection)
- 'Man on a Rowing Machine' (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Ca' la Ghironda Modern Art Museum, Zola Predosa)
- 'Marching Figures' (Oil on canvas, 198.1 × 137.2 cm (78 × 54 in), Private Collection)
- 'Figure with Raised Arm' (Oil on canvas, 152.1 × 116.2 cm (59 ⅞ × 45 ¾ in), Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin)
- 'Crouching Nude' (Oil and cotton wool on canvas, 196.8 × 136.5 cm (77 ½ × 53 ¾ in), Private Collection)
- 'Figures in a Landscape' (Oil and alkyd paint on canvas, 198 × 137.2 cm (78 × 54 ⅛ in), Private Collection)
- 1953
- Study of a Nude (1952–53) (Oil on canvas, 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich)
- Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (Oil on canvas, 152 × 118 cm (59 ⅞ × 46 ⅜ in), Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines)
- Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 118 cm (60 × 46 ½ in), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg)
- 'Man on a Chaise-Longue' (Oil on canvas, 152 × 118 cm (60 × 46 ½ in), Private Collection, Italy)
- 'Sea' (Oil on canvas, 152 × 118 cm (60 × 46 ½ in), Private Collection)
- Man with Dog (Oil on canvas, 152 × 117 cm (59 ⅞ × 46 in), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo)
- Study for Portrait I (Oil on canvas, 152 × 118 cm (59 ⅞ × 46 ½ in), Private Collection)
- Study for a Portrait II (Oil on canvas, 153.5 × 115.5 cm (60 ½ × 45 ½ in), Private Collection)
- Study for Portrait III (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 116.5 cm (60 × 45 ⅞ in), Private Collection)
- Study for Portrait IV (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 116 cm (60 × 45 ¾ in), The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Centre, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie)
- Study for Portrait V (Oil on canvas, 152.7 × 117.1 cm (60 ⅛ × 46 ⅛ in), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
- Study for Portrait VI (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 117 cm (60 × 46 in), Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis)
- Study for Portrait VII (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 117 cm (60 × 46 ⅛ in), Museum of Modern Art, New York)[12]
- Study for Portrait VIII (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 117 cm (60 × 46 in), Private Collection)
- Sphinx I (Oil on canvas, 199.5 × 137 cm (78 ½ × 54 in), Private Collection)
- Sphinx II (Oil on canvas, 199 × 137 cm (78 ¼ × 54 in), Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
- Study of a Baboon (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York)[13]
- Study for Figure I (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 53 ⅞ in), Private Collection)
- Study for Figure II (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Janine and J. Tomilson Hill)
- Study of Figure in a Room (Oil on canvas, 198 × 136.5 cm (78 × 53 ¾ in), Private Collection, London)
- 'Lying Figure' (Oil on canvas, 175 × 129 cm (68 ⅞ × 50 ¾ in), Private Collection, Rome)
- Study of the Human Head (Oil on canvas, 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in), Private Collection)
- Three Studies of the Human Head (Oil on canvas, triptych; each panel 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in), Private Collection)
- Two Figures (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 116.5 cm (60 × 45 ⅞ in), Private Collection)
- Two Figures at a Window (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 116.5 cm (60 × 45 ⅞ in), Private Collection, London)
- Portrait of a Man (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 117 cm (60 × 46 in), Private Collection)
- Sphinx (Oil on canvas, 151 × 116 cm (59 ½ × 45 ⅝ in), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota)
- The End of the Line (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 117 cm (60 × 46 in), Private Collection)
- Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), The V-A-C Collection, Moscow)
- Monkey (Oil on canvas, 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in), Private Collection)
- 'Portrait of a Man Walking' (Oil on canvas, 151.1 × 117.8 cm (59 ½ × 46 in), Private Collection)
- 'Pope' (Oil on canvas, 152.3 × 94 cm (60 × 37 in), Private Collection)
- 1954
- Man in Blue I (Oil on canvas, 197 x 135 cm (77 ½ x 53 ¼ in), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam)[14]
- Man in Blue II (Oil on canvas, 152 x 116.5 cm (59 ⅞ x 45 ⅞ in), Private Collection)
- Man in Blue III (Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 117 cm (60 x 46 in), Private Collection)
- Man in Blue IV (Oil on canvas, 198 x 137 cm (78 x 54 in), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna)[15]
- Man in Blue V (Oil on canvas, 198 x 137 cm (78 x 54 in), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
- Man in Blue VI (Oil on canvas, 151 x 118 cm (59 ½ x 46 ½ in), Private Collection)
- Man in Blue VII (Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 117 cm (60 x 46 in), Private Collection)
- Sphinx (Oil on canvas, 198.7 x 137.1 cm (78 ¼ x 54 in), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.)
- Study of a Dog (Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 118 cm (60 x 46 ½ in), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
- Figure with Meat (Oil on canvas, 129 x 122 cm (50 ⅞ x 48 in), Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago)
- Pope (Oil on canvas, 152.3 x 116.5 cm (60 x 45 ⅞ in), Private Collection)
- Two Americans (Oil on canvas, 68 x 74.5 cm (26 ⅞ x 29 ¼ in), Private Collection)
- Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, 66 x 53.5 cm (26 x 21 in), Private Collection)
- Figures in a Landscape (Oil on cardboard, 66 x 51 cm (26 x 20 in), Private Collection)
- A Performing Dog (Oil on canvas, 198.1 x 137.8 cm (78 x 54 ¼ in), Private Collection)
- 'Seated Figure' (Oil on canvas, 198 x 137 cm (78 x 53 ⅞ in), Private Collection)
- Untitled (Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 115 cm (60 x 45 ¼ in), Private Collection)
- 1955
- Study for Portrait I (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), Private Collection)
- Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), Tate Britain, London)
- Study for Portrait III (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), Private Collection)
- Head in Grey (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
- Small Study for Portrait (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection / Winners of the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen, permanent loan in the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen)
- Study for a Head (Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 76 cm (40 x 30 in), Private Collection)
- Man Drinking (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), Private Collection)
- Chimpanzee (Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 117 cm (60 x 46 in), Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart)
- Portrait of R.J. Sainsbury (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (45 ½ x 39 in), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich)[16]
- Study for Portrait IV (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, 61.5 x 51 cm (24 ¼ x 20 in), c. 1955, Museum of Modern Art, New York)[17]
- Study for a Pope (Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 117 cm (60 x 46 in), Private Collection)
- Man with Head Wound (Oil on canvas, 113.5 x 99 cm (44 x 39 in), Private Collection, Germany)
- Figure Sitting (Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 117 cm (60 x 46 ⅛ in), S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent)
- Head with Raised Arm (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), Whereabouts Unknown)
- Study (Oil on canvas, 108.6 x 75.6 cm (42 ¾ x 29 ¾ in), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich)
- Sketch for a Portrait of Lisa (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich)[16]
- 'Lisa Sainsbury' (?) (Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 64.7 cm (19 ¾ x 24 ¼ in), c. 1955, Private Collection)
- 1956
- Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 198.12 x 137.16 cm (78 x 54 in), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth)[18]
- Head (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), 1956, Private Collection)
- Study for Portrait of Van Gogh I (Oil and sand on canvas, 152.5 x 117 cm (60 x 46 in), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich)
- Portrait of Lisa (Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 73.5 cm (40 x 29 in), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich)
- Study for Portrait II (Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 116.5 cm (60 x 45 ⅞ in), Janine and J. Tomilson Hill)
- Study for Portrait I (Oil on canvas, 197 x 141.5 cm (77 ⅛ x 55 ¾ in), The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa)
- Man Carrying a Child (Oil on canvas, 198 x 142 cm (78 x 56 in), 1956, Private Collection)
- Study for Portrait V (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, 36 x 30.5 cm (14 ⅛ x 12 in), 1956, Private Collection)
- Owls (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm (24 x 20 in), Private Collection)
- Figure in Mountain Landscape (Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 118 cm (60 x 46 ½ in), Kunsthaus Zürich, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde, Zürich)
- Figures in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, 147.3 x 132.1 cm (58 x 52 in), Private Collection)
- 1956–57
- Figures in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 118 cm (60 × 46½ in), 1956–1957, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham)
- Study for Figure IV (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 117 cm (60 × 46 in), 1956–1957, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide)
- Study for Figure V (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 119 cm (60 × 46⅞ in), 1956–1957, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley)
- Study for Figure VI (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 119 cm (60 × 46¾ in), 1956–1957, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle)
- Study for Portrait IX (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 116.5 cm (60 × 46½ in), 1956–1957, Private collection)
- 1957
- Study for Portrait X (Oil on canvas, 198 × 142 cm (78 × 56 in), Private Collection)
- Skull of a Gorilla (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 116.5 cm (60 × 46½ in), Fractionally owned by a private collection, USA, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco)
- Study for the Nurse in the film Battleship Potemkin (Oil on canvas, 198 × 142 cm (78 × 56 in), Städel Museum, Frankfurt)
- Study for Chimpanzee (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 116.5 cm (60 × 46½ in), Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice)
- Study for Portrait of Van Gogh II (Oil on canvas, 198 × 142 cm (78 × 56 in), Private Collection)- Titled On the Road to Tarascon on reverse
- Study for Portrait of Van Gogh III (Oil and sand on canvas, 198.4 × 142.5 cm (78 ⅛ × 56 ⅛ in), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
- Study for Portrait of Van Gogh V (Oil and sand on canvas, 198.7 × 137.5 cm (78 ⅛ × 54 ⅛ in), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
- Study for Portrait of Van Gogh VI (Oil on canvas, 202.5 × 142 cm (79 ¾ × 56 in), The Arts Council of Great Britain)
- Van Gogh in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 119.5 cm (60 × 47 in), Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris)
- Figure in a Landscape (Miss Diana Watson) (Oil on canvas, 198 × 137 cm (78 × 54 in), Private Collection)[19]
- Portrait of Lisa (Oil on canvas, 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich)
- Van Gogh Going to Work (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 119.5 cm (60 × 47 in), Private Collection): Titled and signed on the reverse
- Study for Portrait of P.L. No. 1 (Oil on canvas, 198 × 142 cm (78 × 56 in), Private Collection)[20]
- Study for Portrait of P.L. No. 2 (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 119.5 cm (60 × 47 in), Robert and Lisa Sainsbury)
- Mlle Suzy Solidor (Oil on canvas, 76 × 61 cm (30 × 24 in), Whereabouts Unknown, destroyed by the artist)[21]
- Study for Portrait (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 116.5 cm (60 × 46½ in), The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection / Winners of the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen, permanent loan in the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen)
- Landscape after Van Gogh (Oil on canvas, 127 × 101.6 cm (50 × 40 in), The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection / Winners of the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen, permanent loan in the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen)
- Figure in Sea (Oil on canvas, 198 × 136.5 cm (78 × 53¾ in), Private Collection)
- Two Owls (Oil on canvas, 152.4 × 117 cm (60 × 46 in), Private Collection)
- Seated Man (Oil on canvas, 140 × 110 cm (55 × 43⅜ in), Private Collection)
- 1958
- Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 152.1 × 119.3 cm (59⅞ × 47 in), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
- Painting (Oil on canvas, 198 × 142 cm (78 × 56 in), Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels)
- Head I (Oil on canvas, 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in), Private Collection)
- Head II (Oil on canvas, 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in), European Institution Collection)
- Seated Man, Orange Background (Oil and sand on canvas, 155 × 141 cm (61 × 55½ in), Private Collection)
- Lying Figure (Oil on canvas, 153.5 × 119.5 cm (60½ × 47 in), Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum)
- Pope (Oil on canvas, 196 × 140 cm (77⅛ × 55⅛ in), Brooklyn Museum, New York)
- '‘Pope’’ (Oil on canvas, 198.5 × 142 cm (78⅛ × 56 in), Private Collection)
- Pope with Owls (Oil on canvas, 145 × 109 cm (57 × 43 in), Private Collection)
- Figure on a Dais (Oil on canvas, 190 × 140 cm (74¾ × 55⅛ in), Private Collection)
- Figure in a Room (Oil and sand on canvas, 198 × 142.2 cm (78 × 56 in), Private Collection)
- 1959
- Reclining Figure (Oil on canvas, 198 × 142.2 cm (78 × 56 in), Private Collection)
- Lying Figure (Oil on canvas, 198 × 141.5 cm (78 × 55¾ in), New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester)
- Two Figures in a Room (Oil and sand on canvas, 198 × 141.5 cm (78 × 55¾ in), Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich)
- Seated Figure on a Couch (Oil on canvas, 198 × 141.5 cm (78 × 55¾ in), Private Collection)
- Reclining Figure (Oil on canvas, 198 × 142 cm (78 × 56 in), Private Collection)
- Lying Figure (Oil on canvas, 198 × 142 cm (78 × 56 in), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
- Head of a Man (Oil on canvas, 34.5 × 30.5 cm (13 × 12 in), Private Collection, Connecticut)
- Lying Figure (Oil on canvas, 198 × 113 cm (78 × 44½ in), Private Collection, USA)
- Sleeping Figure (Oil on canvas, 119.5 × 152.5 cm (47 × 60 in), Private Collection)
- Study from Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Velásquez (Oil on canvas, 152.5 × 119.5 cm (60⅛ × 47 in), Private Collection)
- Head of a Man (Oil on canvas, 48.25 × 45.75 cm (19 × 18 in), Private Collection)
- Head of Man (Oil on canvas, 34.5 × 28 cm (13½ × 11 in), Private Collection)
- Miss Muriel Belcher (Oil on canvas, 74 × 67.5 cm (29 × 26½ in), Private Collection)[22]
- Head of Man - Study of Drawing by Van Gogh (Oil on canvas, 66 × 61 cm (26 × 24 in), Private Collection)
- Two Figures (Oil on canvas, 134.5 × 91.5 cm (approx. 53 × 36 in), Private Collection)
- Figure (Oil on hardboard, upper: 75.7 × 119 cm (29⅝ × 46⅞ in); lower: 76.9 × 119.2 cm (30¼ × 47 in), Private Collection)
1960s
- 1959–60
- Walking Figure (Oil on canvas, 158.12 × 142.24 cm (78 x 56 in), Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas)[23]
- 1960
- Nude (Oil on canvas 152,4 x 119,7 cm,[24] Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt)[25]
- Seated Figure (Oil on canvas, 153 cm × 119 cm (60+1⁄8 in × 47 in), Private collection)[26]
- Study of a Child (Oil on canvas 152.5 x 118 cm (60 x 46.5 in), Botero Museum, Bogotá)[27]
- 1961
- Reclining Woman (Oil on canvas, 198.8 cm × 141.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London)[28]
- Seated Figure (Oil on canvas, 165.1 cm × 142.2 cm, Tate Gallery, London)[29]
- 1962
- Figure in a Room (Oil on canvas, 198.8 × 144.7 cm (78.2 × 56.9 in), Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul)[30]
- Study for Three Heads (Oil on canvas, 35.9 x 30.8 cm (14 x 12 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City)[31]
- Three Studies for a Crucifixion (Oil and sand on canvas, 200 cm × 140 cm (78 in × 57 in), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City) (large triptych)
- 1963
- Figure with Two Owls, Study for Velazquez (Oil on canvas, 198.12 x 144.78 cm (78 x 57 in), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco) [32]
- Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 142.2 cm (65 x 56 in),[33]Sheldon Solow[34])
- Study for Portrait on Folding Bed (Oil on canvas, 198.1 cm × 147.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London)[35]
- Study for Self Portrait (Oil on canvas, 165.2 x 142.6 cm (64.9 x 56.1 in), National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff)[36]
- Three Studies for the Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (Oil on canvas, each 36 cm × 31 cm (14+1⁄8 in × 12+1⁄8 in)), Museum of Modern Art, New York City) (small triptych)[37]
- 1964
- Study for the Portrait of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.8 cm (78 x 54 in), Israel Museum, Jerusalem)[38]
- Three Figures in a Room 1964 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris) (large triptych)
- Study for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 140 cm, (60 x 55 in), Private collection)[39]
- 1965
- Crucifixion (Oil and acrylic on canvas, 197.5 cm x 147 cm (78 x 58 in), Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich) (large triptych)
- 1966
- Three Studies for a Portrait of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)
- Portrait of George Dyer Talking (Oil on canvas, 198.2 x 147.3 cm (78 x 58 in), Private collection)[40]
- Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne (Oil on canvas, 81.3 cm × 68.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London)[41]
- c.1967
- Untitled (Head) (Oil on canvas, 33.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in), Private collection)[42]
- 1967
- Study for Head of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 36 cm × 30.5 cm, Private collection, long term loan to Tate Gallery, London)[43]
- Triptych inspired by T.S Elliot's Poem Sweeney Agonistes (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78.25 x 57.25 in), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.) (large triptych)
- Three Studies for George Dyer (1967)
- Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud (1967)
- 1968
- Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendants (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran) (large triptych)[44]
- 1969
- Three Studies of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)[45]
1970s
- 1970
- Triptych 1970 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra) (large triptych)[46]
- Three Studies of the Male Back (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57.5 in), Kunsthaus, Zurich)
- Triptych – Studies of the Human Body (1970) (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 58.5 in), Private collection of Jacques Hachuel, Paris) (large triptych)
- Triptych – Studies from the Human Body (1970) (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Jacques Hachuel, Paris) (large triptych)
- 1971
- Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971 198 cm × 148 cm (78 in × 58+1⁄8 in)[47]
- In Memory of George Dyer (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Beyler Foundation, Riehen, near Basel) (large triptych)
- 1972
- Triptych–August 1972 (Oil on canvas, 198.1 x 147.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London)[48]
- Three Studies of Figures on Beds (Oil and tempere on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)
- 1973
- Three Portraits: Posthumous Portrait of George Dyer, Self-portrait, and Portrait of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Beyler Foundation, Riehen, near Basel) (large triptych)
- Triptych, May–June 1973 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Esther Grether, Switzerland) (large triptych)[49][50]
- 1974
- Three Studies for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 35.6 x 30.5 cm, (14 x 12 in), Private collection)[51] (small triptych)
- Triptych March 1974 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection, Madrid) (large triptych)
- Triptych 1974–1977 (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Joe Lewis) (large triptych)[49][52][53]
- 1975
- Three Studies for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, each 35.5 x 30.5 cm, (14 x 12 in), Private collection)[54] (small triptych)
- Three Figures and Portrait (Oil on canvas, 198.1 cm × 147.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London)[55]
- 1976
- Study for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 198.0 x 147.5 cm (77.9 x 58 in), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)[56]
- Triptych 1976 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Roman Abramovich) (large triptych)[49]
- 1979
- Triptych – Studies of the Human Body (1979) (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)[57]
- 1979–80
- Three Studies for a Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, each 37 cm × 32 cm (14+3⁄4 in × 12+1⁄2 in), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) (small triptych)[58]
1980s
- 1981
- Triptych inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 58 in), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo) (large triptych)
- 1981–82
- Triptych November 1981 – January 1982 (left panel) (Oil, pastel and transfer lettering on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm, Private collection, the Estate of Francis Bacon)[59]
- 1982
- Three Studies for Portrait (Mick Jagger) (Oil and pastel on canvas, each panel 35.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in), Private collection, New York City) (small triptych)[60]
- 1983
- Three Studies for a Self Portrait (Oil on canvas, 35 cm × 30 cm (13+3⁄4 in × 12 in), Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu)[61]
- Triptych 1983 (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Juan Abelló) (large triptych)[62]
- 1984
- Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)[63]
- 1986
- Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Marlborough International Fine Art) (large triptych)
- Portrait of Gilbert de Botton Speaking (Oil on canvas, Private collection)[64]
- 1987
- Triptych 86–87 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)
- Triptych 1987 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon, London) (large triptych)
- c.1988
- Blood on Pavement (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection)[65]
- 1988
- Portrait of John Edwards (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon, London)[65]
- Jet of Water (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomlinson Hill, New York)[65]
- Second Version of Triptych 1944 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Tate, London) (large triptych)
1990s
- 1991
- Study for a Portrait March 1991 (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh)[66]
- Triptych 1991 (Oil on linen, 198.1 x 147.6 cm (78 x 57 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City) (large triptych)[67]
See also
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