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?
Bacon's study of Freud is to be shown for the first time in public since 1964 in Tate Britain's upcoming Freud and Bacon exhibition.
Friends, rivals and finally enemies, Freud and Bacon enjoyed a complex and much scrutinized relationship. Following their first meeting in 1940, the pair were almost inseparable, painting each other multiple times in the early years.
This angst-ridden depiction of a contorted and disfigured human figure (Freud), bare chested and curled into the corner of a dark room beneath a single light bulb, simultaneously explores human estrangement, isolation and vulnerability. Striking and unsettling, it's an unconventional portrait of one of the most famous painters of the twentieth century.
