Figure in a landscape is a 1945 painting by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon. Based on a photograph of Eric Hall dozing on a seat in Hyde Park, also the basis of another painting held in the Lefevre Figure in a landscape (1945) which was bought by Diana Watson and later in 1950 by the Tate gallery (with the support of Graham Sutherland, then a trustee (1948 – 1954).
A photograph of Eric Hall dozing on a seat in Hyde Park was the basis of the o...
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Figure in a landscape is a 1945 painting by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon. Based on a photograph of Eric Hall dozing on a seat in Hyde Park, also the basis of another painting held in the Lefevre Figure in a landscape (1945) which was bought by Diana Watson and later in 1950 by the Tate gallery (with the support of Graham Sutherland, then a trustee (1948 – 1954).
A photograph of Eric Hall dozing on a seat in Hyde Park was the basis of the other painting in the Lefevre show, Figure in a landscape (1945) which was bought by Diana Watson and, in 1950, by the Tate Gallery (with the support of Graham Sutherland, then a trustee (1948 – 1954)).
Figure Study (1945) was destroyed; "Figure Study I2 and "Figure Study II" are from 1945 or 1946. Study for Man with Microphones (1946) was shown at the Lefevre gallery, (British Painters Past and Present July - August 1946), and at the Anglo-French Art Centre, (Seventh Exhibition November – December 1946). Bacon was clearly unhappy with this...
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