64:, but the glass visible to the viewer distorts the reflection. Splashes of red suggest injury. The smooth pink back of the figure in the left panel contrasts with the knotted red and blue tones of the figure in the right hand panel. The figure in the central panel sits in front of a mirror reading a newspaper, but the mirror is a flat grey and does not reflect.
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would have the edge of the cage logically obscured behind the figure, but instead Bacon has the frame crossing the back of its head. The figure in each side panel is placed in front of a
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Study for
Portrait II (After the Life Mask of William Blake)
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Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho
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Triptych
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a
Portrait of Francis Bacon
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Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with
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16:1970 painting by Francis Bacon
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99:References
38:is a 1970
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367:Head III
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29:, 1970
402:Popes
79:Degas
67:The
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