Francis Bacon

Bacon's raw, distorted figurative paintings—screaming popes, contorted bodies in isolated glass cubes—established him as the paramount British painter of the postwar era. His 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud' sold for $142 million in 2013. Largely self-taught, working in deliberate studio chaos, Bacon created images of visceral existential power that set the standard for figurative painting in the second half of the 20th century.

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