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Bacon, Francis, 1909–1992 1
Kossoff, Leon, 1926–2019 1

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figure study 2

portrait 1

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figure study 2
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faces 1
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In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30) 2

Eight Figurative Painters (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1982-01-29 - 1982-03-28) 1
Eight Figurative Painters (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-10-14 - 1982-01-03) 1
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08) 1
Francis Bacon (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 2003-10-15 - 2004-01-18) 1
Francis Bacon - Paintings From The 1950s (Milwaukee Art Museum, 2007-01-29 - 2007-04-15) 1
Francis Bacon - Paintings From The 1950s (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2006-10-01 - 2006-12-10) 1
Francis Bacon - Portraits and Heads (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2005-10-06 - 2006-01-28) 1
Francis Bacon - Portraits and Heads (National Galleries of Scotland, 2005-06-04 - 2005-09-04) 1
Francis Bacon 2000 Exhibition (Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2000-06-01 - 2000-08-31) 1
Francis Bacon : A Retrospective Exhibition (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1999-06-13 - 1999-08-02) 1
Francis Bacon : A Retrospective Exhibition (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999-04-08 - 1999-05-27) 1
Francis Bacon : A Retrospective Exhibition (The Museum of Modern Art of Fort Worth, 1999-08-20 - 1999-10-15) 1
Francis Bacon : A Retrospective Exhibition (Yale Center for British Art, 1999-01-25 - 1999-03-21) 1
Francis Bacon [Japan 2013] (The National Museum of Modern Art, 2013-03-08 - 2013-05-26) 1
Francis Bacon [Japan 2013] (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2013-06-04 - 2013-09-01) 1
Francis Bacon and the Masters: A Collaboration between the State Hermitage Museum and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2015-04-18 - 2015-07-26) 1
Francis Bacon and the Masters: A Collaboration between the State Hermitage Museum and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (The State Hermitage Museum, 2014-12-06 - 2015-03-08) 1
Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat (Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2024-03-22 - 2024-07-28) 1
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03) 1
Leon Kossoff (Tate Britain, 1996-06-06 - 1996-09-01) 1
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18) 1

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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Beekman C. and Margaret H. Cannon 1

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Period: 20th century
Genre: figure study
Exhibition History: In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)
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Leon Kossoff, 1926–2019

Fidelma III

1979
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Francis Bacon, 1909–1992

Study of a Head

1952

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

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