Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon Paintings: The eight most scandalous
The explosive synergy between Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud has made their unconventional 'bromance' one of the most critiqued of all twentieth-century relationships.
Innovative talents working in Post-War London, Bacon and Freud spearheaded a movement championing figurative representation when abstraction was the pervading fashion.
While their painterly style differs dramatically, their obsession with visceral, raw image-making that distorted the human form unites them as one in the popular imagination.
Ahead of the Freud and Bacon exhibition at Tate Britain, we round up the eight most controversial Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon paintings.
Friends, rivals, and finally enemies: it's Bacon vs Freud. Who wins?
It's no secret that Bacon was eerily obsessed with the past and, in particular, Christ's crucifixion. One of Bacon's earliest works, Crucifixion's sombre and restrained palette exaggerates man's solitude and helplessness in the universe.
A relative unknown until the Post-War years, Bacon's ghostly depiction of human sacrifice and suffering catapulted him to international fame.
