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The year-old Bacon went to London with no clear idea of what he wanted to do. Instead the sexually voracious guardian took advantage of his charge, a turn-around Bacon later recounted with considerable mirth. He savoured its opulence, experienced at first hand in the Hotel Adlon, and its squalor, felt in the poverty of the surrounding streets.

What You Need to Know About Francis Bacon

Eventually he started painting, producing those unsettling works of popes screaming, people with mouths full of sinister teeth, and grotesque figures reminiscent of the Furies of Greek mythology. He would also occasionally paint scenes such as Two Figures featuring two men in a moment of passion.

What Happened to Him as a Child?

And thus, despite a great biography otherwise, Stevens and Swan need to brought to the bar of critical examination of attitudes in themselves that they have failed to challenge. There is in the biography of course an awareness that the proximity of queer behaviour to other constructs other than those of a bourgeois society against which Bacon rebelled.

Francis Bacon is considered to be one of the most important and influential painters of the 20th Century. His vast career spaned over many important decades in human history. His works explore the distortion of the human figure, referencing images of sexuality, violence and brutality.