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Francis Bacon (artist)

Index Francis Bacon (artist)

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery. [1]

189 relations: Abbeyleix, Adelaide, Air Raid Precautions in the United Kingdom, Alberto Giacometti, Alexandria, Alfred H. Barr Jr., Arena (UK TV series), Armature (sculpture), Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Artnet, Baggot Street, Barbiturate, Bath Club, Battleship Potemkin, Billiard room, Binge drinking, Biomorphism, Cairo, Carlo Ponti, Champs-Élysées, Chantilly, Oise, Château de Chantilly, Chelsea, London, Chimera (mythology), Christie's, Civil defense, Cloche hat, Cornwall, County Kildare, County Laois, Crucifixion, Crucifixion of Jesus, Daniel Farson, David Geffen, David Sylvester, Dean Street, Diego Velázquez, Diptych, Dover Street, Drawing, Dublin, East End of London, Edvard Munch, Erica Brausen, Erinyes, Existentialism, Fixative (drawing), Flapper, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, ..., Friedrich Nietzsche, Fritz Lang, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Ghosts (play), Glebe Place, Gloucestershire, Gotherington, Graham Sutherland, Grand Palais, Great Sphinx of Giza, Groom (profession), Hanover Gallery, Head I, Head VI, Henrietta Moraes, Henrik Ibsen, Henry Moore, Herbert Read, Herefordshire, Horse racing, Hugh Lane Gallery, Impressionism, Interchange (de Kooning), Ireland, Irish people, Isabel Nicholas, Jeffrey Bernard, Jersey, John Deakin, John Everett Millais, John Minton (artist), John Russell (art critic), Judith H. Dobrzynski, Karnak, Kenneth C. Griffin, Kilcullen, Kruger National Park, Lady Caroline Blackwood, Leicester Square, List of cutaneous conditions, Lucian Freud, Luxor, Madrid, Male prostitution, Mariano Akerman, Marlborough Fine Art, Marseille, Martin Harrison (curator), Massacre of the Innocents, Matthias Grünewald, Melvyn Bragg, Metropolis (1927 film), Michael Peppiatt, Michael Shnayerson, Michel Leiris, Modern art, Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo Casino, Motif (visual arts), Mozzetta, Muriel Belcher, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Museum of Modern Art, Myocardial infarction, Naas, Nanny, Nice, Nicolas Poussin, Nuremberg Rally, Old Master, Pablo Picasso, Painting, Painting 1946, Pastel, Patrick Swift, Patrick White, Patronage, Petersfield, Pince-nez, Poison pen letter, Pope, Portrait of Innocent X, Potemkin Stairs, Pub, Queen Victoria, Radiography, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes (critic), Roland Penrose, Roulette, Roy De Maistre, Royal Hospital Road, Sarah Thornton, Savile Row, Second Boer War, Sergei Eisenstein, Sheffield, Silent film, Sinclair-Stevenson, Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave, Soho, Sophia Loren, Sotheby's, South Kensington, Straffan, Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86, Suffolk, Surrealism, Switchboard operator, Tate, The Art Newspaper, The Black Triptychs, The Blitz, The Colony Room Club, The Daily Telegraph, The Listener (magazine), The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Scream, The Three Dancers, The Times, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, Three Studies of Lucian Freud, Titian, Tom Baker, Tony Shafrazi, Tooth, Tripod, Triptych, Triptych, May–June 1973, Trust law, United Kingdom, Vanity Fair (magazine), Victor Pasmore, Vogue (magazine), Warren Hoge, Willem de Kooning, Wyndham Lewis. Expand index (139 more) »

Abbeyleix

Abbeyleix is a town in County Laois, Ireland, located around south of the county town of Portlaoise.

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Air Raid Precautions in the United Kingdom

Air Raid Precautions (ARP) was an organisation in the United Kingdom set up in 1937 dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air raids.

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Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti (10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker.

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Alexandria

Alexandria (or; Arabic: الإسكندرية; Egyptian Arabic: إسكندرية; Ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ; Ⲣⲁⲕⲟⲧⲉ) is the second-largest city in Egypt and a major economic centre, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country.

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Alfred H. Barr Jr.

Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. (January 28, 1902 – August 15, 1981) was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Arena (UK TV series)

Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC since 1 October 1975.

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Armature (sculpture)

In sculpture, an armature is a framework around which the sculpture is built.

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Army Reserve (United Kingdom)

The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force and integrated element of the British Army.

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Artnet

Artnet.com is an art market website.

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Baggot Street

Baggot Street is a street in Dublin, Ireland.

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Barbiturate

A barbiturate is a drug that acts as a central nervous system depressant, and can therefore produce a wide spectrum of effects, from mild sedation to death.

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Bath Club

The Bath Club was a sports-themed London gentlemen's club in the 20th century.

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Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin (Бронено́сец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm.

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Billiard room

A billiard room (also billiards room, or more specifically pool room, snooker room) is a recreation room, such as in a house or recreation center, with a billiards, pool or snooker table.

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Binge drinking

Binge drinking, or heavy episodic drinking, is a modern epithet for drinking alcoholic beverages with an intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time.

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Biomorphism

Biomorphism models artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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Carlo Ponti

Carlo Fortunaro Pietro Ponti Sr. (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit.

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Champs-Élysées

The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, long and wide, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place Charles de Gaulle, where the Arc de Triomphe is located.

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Chantilly, Oise

Chantilly is a commune in the Oise department in the valley of the Nonette in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.

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Château de Chantilly

The Château de Chantilly is a historic château located in the town of Chantilly, France, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Paris.

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Chelsea, London

Chelsea is an affluent area of South West London, bounded to the south by the River Thames.

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Chimera (mythology)

The Chimera (or, also Chimaera (Chimæra); Greek: Χίμαιρα, Chímaira "she-goat") was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of more than one animal.

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Christie's

Christie's is a British auction house.

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Civil defense

Civil defense or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from military attacks and natural disasters.

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Cloche hat

The cloche hat or simply cloche is a fitted, bell-shaped hat for women that was invented in 1908 by milliner Caroline Reboux.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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County Kildare

County Kildare (Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland.

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County Laois

County Laois (Contae Laoise) is a county in Ireland.

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Crucifixion

Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang for several days until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation.

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Crucifixion of Jesus

The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judea, most likely between AD 30 and 33.

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Daniel Farson

Daniel James Negley Farson (8 January 1927 – 27 November 1997) was a British writer and broadcaster, strongly identified with the early days of commercial television in the UK, when his sharp, investigative style contrasted with the BBC's more deferential culture.

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David Geffen

David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American business magnate, producer, film studio executive, and philanthropist.

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David Sylvester

David Sylvester CBE (21 September 1924 – 19 June 2001) was a British art critic and curator.

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Dean Street

Dean Street is a street in Soho, central London, running from Oxford Street south to Shaftesbury Avenue.

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Diego Velázquez

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptized on June 6, 1599August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV, and one of the most important painters of the Spanish Golden Age.

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Diptych

A diptych (from the Greek δίπτυχον, di "two" + ptychē "fold") is any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge.

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Dover Street

Dover Street is a street in Mayfair, London.

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Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which a person uses various drawing instruments to mark paper or another two-dimensional medium.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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East End of London

The East End of London, usually called the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London, and north of the River Thames.

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Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

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Erica Brausen

Erica Brausen (31 January 1908 – 16 December 1992), was an art dealer and gallerist who established the Hanover Gallery in London in 1946 and was an early champion of several influential contemporary artists, most notably Francis Bacon.

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Erinyes

In Greek mythology the Erinyes (sing. Erinys; Ἐρῑνύες, pl. of Ἐρῑνύς, Erinys), also known as the Furies, were female chthonic deities of vengeance; they were sometimes referred to as "infernal goddesses" (χθόνιαι θεαί).

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a tradition of philosophical inquiry associated mainly with certain 19th and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed.

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Fixative (drawing)

In drawing, a fixative is a liquid, similar to varnish, which is usually sprayed over a finished piece of artwork, usually a dry media artwork, to better preserve it and prevent smudging.

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Flapper

Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, (22 January 15619 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author.

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Frank Auerbach

Frank Helmut Auerbach (born 29 April 1931) is a German-British painter.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.

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Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.

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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (Municipal Museum) is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866.

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Ghosts (play)

Ghosts (Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

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Glebe Place

Glebe Place is a street in Chelsea, London.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Gotherington

Gotherington is a small village north of Bishops Cleeve in Gloucestershire, England.

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Graham Sutherland

Graham Vivian Sutherland OM (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was an English artist who is notable for his work in glass, fabrics, prints and portraits.

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Grand Palais

The Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, commonly known as the Grand Palais (English: Great Palace), is a large historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Great Sphinx of Giza

The Great Sphinx of Giza (translit,, The Terrifying One; literally: Father of Dread), commonly referred to as the Sphinx of Giza or just the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human.

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Groom (profession)

A groom or stable boy is a person who is responsible for some or all aspects of the management of horses and/or the care of the stables themselves.

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Hanover Gallery

The Hanover Gallery was an art gallery in London.

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Head I

Head I is a relatively small oil and tempera on hardboard painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon.

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Head VI

Head VI is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born figurative artist Francis Bacon, the last of six panels making up his "1949 Head" series.

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Henrietta Moraes

Henrietta Moraes (22 May 1931 – 6 January 1999) was a British artists' model and memoirist.

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.

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Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist.

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Herbert Read

Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC (4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education.

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Herefordshire

Herefordshire is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Hugh Lane Gallery

The Hugh Lane Gallery, officially Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and originally the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, is an art gallery operated by Dublin City Council and its subsidiary the Hugh Lane Gallery Trust.

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Impressionism

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterised by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.

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Interchange (de Kooning)

Interchange, also known as Interchanged, is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch-American abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning (1904–1997).

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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Isabel Nicholas

Isabel Rawsthorne, also known as Isabel Lambert, (1912 – 1992) was a British painter, designer and occasional artists' model.

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Jeffrey Bernard

Jeffrey Bernard (27 May 1932 – 4 September 1997) was a British journalist, best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in The Spectator magazine, and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse.

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Jersey

Jersey (Jèrriais: Jèrri), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (Bailliage de Jersey; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is a Crown dependency located near the coast of Normandy, France.

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John Deakin

John Deakin (8 May 1912 – 25 May 1972) was an English photographer, best known for his work centred on members of Francis Bacon's Soho inner circle.

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John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

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John Minton (artist)

Francis John Minton (25 December 1917 – 20 January 1957) was an English painter, illustrator, stage designer and teacher.

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John Russell (art critic)

John Russell CBE (22 January 1919 – 23 August 2008) was a British American art critic.

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Judith H. Dobrzynski

Judith Helen Dobrzynski (born March 8, 1949) is an American journalist and instructor in journalism.

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Karnak

The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (from Arabic Ka-Ranak meaning "fortified village"), comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings in Egypt.

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Kenneth C. Griffin

Kenneth Cordele Griffin (born October 15, 1968) is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist.

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Kilcullen

Kilcullen, formally Kilcullen Bridge, is a small town on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Ireland.

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Kruger National Park

Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa.

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Lady Caroline Blackwood

Lady Caroline Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (16 July 1931 – 14 February 1996) was a writer, and the eldest child of Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, and the brewery heiress Maureen Guinness.

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Leicester Square

Leicester Square is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England.

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List of cutaneous conditions

Many conditions affect the human integumentary system—the organ system covering the entire surface of the body and composed of skin, hair, nails, and related muscle and glands.

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Lucian Freud

Lucian Michael Freud (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists.

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Luxor

Luxor (الأقصر; Egyptian Arabic:; Sa'idi Arabic) is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.

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Male prostitution

Male prostitution is the act or practice of men providing sexual services in return for payment.

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Mariano Akerman

Born in Buenos Aires in 1963, Mariano Akerman is a painter, architect and art historian.

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Marlborough Fine Art

Marlborough Fine Art was founded in London, England, in 1946 by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer.

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Marseille

Marseille (Provençal: Marselha), is the second-largest city of France and the largest city of the Provence historical region.

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Martin Harrison (curator)

Martin Harrison (born 1945) is a British curator of and writer about art and photography who is an authority on the work of Francis Bacon.

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Massacre of the Innocents

The Massacre of the Innocents is the biblical account of infanticide by Herod the Great, the Roman-appointed King of the Jews.

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Matthias Grünewald

Matthias Grünewald (– 31 August 1528) was a German Renaissance painter of religious works who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century.

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Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939), is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian.

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Metropolis (1927 film)

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang.

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Michael Peppiatt

Michael Peppiatt is an English art historian, curator and writer.

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Michael Shnayerson

Michael Beahan Shnayerson (born December 2, 1954) is an American journalist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine.

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Michel Leiris

Julien Michel Leiris (April 20, 1901 in Paris – September 30, 1990 in Saint-Hilaire, Essonne) was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer.

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Modern art

Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophy of the art produced during that era.

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Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo (Monte-Carlo, or colloquially Monte-Carl; Monégasque: Monte-Carlu) officially refers to an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located.

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Monte Carlo Casino

Officially named "Casino de Monte-Carlo", the Monte Carlo Casino is a gambling and entertainment complex located in Monaco.

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Motif (visual arts)

In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.

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Mozzetta

The mozzetta is a short elbow-length sartorial vestment, a cape that covers the shoulders and is buttoned over the frontal breast area.

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Muriel Belcher

Muriel Belcher (Edgbaston, 1908–1979) was the founder and proprietress of a private drinking club known as The Colony Room (also known as Muriel's) at 41 Dean Street, Soho, London.

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Musée National d'Art Moderne

The Musée National d'Art Moderne (National Museum of Modern Art) is the national museum for modern art of France.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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Naas

Naas (Nás na Ríogh, or An Nás) is the county town of County Kildare in Ireland.

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Nanny

A nanny provides child care within the children's family setting.

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Nice

Nice (Niçard Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, nonstandard,; Nizza; Νίκαια; Nicaea) is the fifth most populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département.

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Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.

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Nuremberg Rally

The Nuremberg Rally (officially, meaning Realm Party ConventionLiterally "Realm Party Day") was the annual rally of the Nazi Party in Germany, held from 1923 to 1938.

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Old Master

Sleeping Venus'' (c. 1510), Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master"), Christies.com.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Painting 1946

Painting 1946, also known as Painting or Painting (1946), is an oil-on-linen painting by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon.

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Pastel

A pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder.

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Patrick Swift

Patrick Swift (1927–1983) was an Irish painter who worked in Dublin, London and Algarve in southern Portugal.

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Patrick White

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 191230 September 1990) was an Australian writer who, from 1935 to 1987, published 12 novels, three short-story collections and eight plays.

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Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another.

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Petersfield

Petersfield is a market town and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.

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Pince-nez

Pince-nez is a style of glasses, popular in the 19th century, that are supported without earpieces, by pinching the bridge of the nose.

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Poison pen letter

A poison pen letter is a letter or note containing unpleasant, abusive or malicious statements or accusations about the recipient or a third party.

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Pope

The pope (papa from πάππας pappas, a child's word for "father"), also known as the supreme pontiff (from Latin pontifex maximus "greatest priest"), is the Bishop of Rome and therefore ex officio the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Portrait of Innocent X

Portrait of Pope Innocent X is an oil on canvas portrait by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, executed during a trip to Italy around 1650.

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Potemkin Stairs

The Potemkin Stairs, or Potemkin Steps (Потьомкінські сходи, Potj'omkins'ky Skhody, Потёмкинская лестница, Potyomkinskaya Lestnitsa), is a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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Radiography

Radiography is an imaging technique using X-rays to view the internal form of an object.

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker.

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Robert Hughes (critic)

Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 19386 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries.

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Roland Penrose

Sir Roland Algernon Penrose CBE (14 October 1900 – 23 April 1984) was an English artist, historian and poet.

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Roulette

Roulette is a casino game named after the French word meaning little wheel.

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Roy De Maistre

Roy De Maistre CBE (27 March 18941 March 1968) was an Australian artist of international fame.

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Royal Hospital Road

Royal Hospital Road is a street in Chelsea, London, England.

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Sarah Thornton

Sarah L. Thornton is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture.

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Savile Row

Savile Row (pronounced) is a street in Mayfair, central London.

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Second Boer War

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Boer states, the South African Republic (Republic of Transvaal) and the Orange Free State, over the Empire's influence in South Africa.

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Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (p; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Sinclair-Stevenson

Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd is a British publisher founded in 1989 by Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson.

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Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave

Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet (ca. 1540 – 22 November 1624), of Redgrave, Suffolk, English Member of Parliament.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London.

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Sophia Loren

Sofia Villani Scicolone, known as Sophia Loren, Dame of the Grand Cross, O.M.R.I. (born 20 September 1934) is an Italian film actress and singer.

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Sotheby's

Sotheby's is a British founded, American multinational corporation headquartered in New York City.

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South Kensington

South Kensington is an affluent district of West London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Straffan

Straffan (variously Teach Srafáin, Strafáin or An Cluanini in Irish) is a village in County Kildare, Ireland, situated on the banks of the River Liffey, 25 km upstream of the Irish capital Dublin.

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Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86

Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 is a triptych painted between 1985 and 1986 by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.

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Switchboard operator

In the early days of telephony, through roughly the 1960s, companies used manual telephone switchboards, and switchboard operators connected calls by inserting a pair of phone plugs into the appropriate jacks.

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Tate

Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.

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The Art Newspaper

The Art Newspaper is an online and paper publication founded in 1990 and based in London and New York City.

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The Black Triptychs

The Black Triptychs are a series of three triptychs painted by the British artist Francis Bacon between 1972 and 1974.

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The Blitz

The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.

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The Colony Room Club

The Colony Room Club was a private members' drinking club for artists and other creative people at 41 Dean Street, Soho, London.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Listener (magazine)

The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in January 1929 which ceased publication in 1991.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Scream

The Scream (Skrik) is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910.

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The Three Dancers

The Three Dancers (French: Les Trois Danseuses) is a painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, painted in June 1925.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Thomas Agnew & Sons

Thomas Agnew & Sons is a fine arts dealer in London.

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Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion is a 1944 triptych painted by the Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon.

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Three Studies of Lucian Freud

Three Studies of Lucian Freud is a 1969 oil-on-canvas triptych by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, depicting artist Lucian Freud.

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Titian

Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (1488/1490 – 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian, was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school.

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Tom Baker

Thomas Stewart Baker (born 20 January 1934) is an English actor.

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Tony Shafrazi

Tony Shafrazi born May 8th, 1943, is the owner of the Shafrazi Art Gallery in New York, who deals artwork by artists such as Francis Bacon, Keith Haring, and David LaChapelle.

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Tooth

A tooth (plural teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.

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Tripod

A tripod is a portable three-legged frame or stand, used as a platform for supporting the weight and maintaining the stability of some other object.

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Triptych

A triptych (from the Greek adjective τρίπτυχον "triptukhon" ("three-fold"), from tri, i.e., "three" and ptysso, i.e., "to fold" or ptyx, i.e., "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open.

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Triptych, May–June 1973

Triptych, May–June 1973 is a triptych completed in 1973 by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992).

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Trust law

A trust is a three-party fiduciary relationship in which the first party, the trustor or settlor, transfers ("settles") a property (often but not necessarily a sum of money) upon the second party (the trustee) for the benefit of the third party, the beneficiary.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Victor Pasmore

Edwin John Victor Pasmore, CH, CBE (3 December 190823 January 1998) was a British artist and architect.

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Vogue (magazine)

Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine covering many topics including fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway.

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Warren Hoge

Warren McClamroch Hoge (born April 13, 1941) is an American journalist, much of whose long career has been at The New York Times.

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Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch abstract expressionist artist.

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Wyndham Lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was an English writer, painter and critic (he dropped the name "Percy", which he disliked).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist)

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