This artist painted a portrait of Muriel Belcher as the Sphinx after an African trip which also inspired his Study of a Baboon.
This artist painted a portrait of Muriel Belcher as the Sphinx after an African trip which also inspired his Study of a Baboon. In another painting by this artist, a bloody-faced mustached man in a business suit appears to be approaching a row of microphones, the top half of his head completely blocked off by a black umbrella. This artist claimed to have met his model-turned-lover while the latter was breaking into his apartment; he painted the Black (*) Triptychs in the depths of his grief for that lover, George Dyer. On an orange background, he painted three gray, eyeless, long-necked monsters with menacing jaws, intended to represent the Furies. This painter included beef carcasses in Figure with Meat and created a series of distorted studies after Velazquez's portrait of Innocent X. For 10 points, name this artist of the Screaming Popes series and Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.
This artist painted a portrait of Muriel Belcher as the Sphinx after an African trip which also inspired his Study of a Baboon.
Francis Bacon