FTP, name this 1944 triptych by Francis Bacon.
Infrared inspection of this work has shown that the small magenta horseshoe-like shapes surrounding the legs of its central subject were originally flowers. 44 years after this work was painted, its artist created a second version of it that made more explicit a pair of white tables and the shadows they cast. Matthias Grunewald's Mocking of Christ likely inspired the blindfold worn by one of its subjects. John Russell once claimed that "there was painting in England before" this work, "and painting after it, and no one ... can confuse the two." Its left side features a ginger-haired figure perched atop a table, while on its right side, a patch of grass can be seen under the single limb of a figure with an elongated neck, large ear, and widely-opened mouth. Originally designed as a predella to a larger altarpiece, this work consists of a series of burnt-orange panels featuring distorted, elongated figures representing the Furies. FTP, name this 1944 triptych by Francis Bacon.
Infrared inspection of this work has shown that the small magenta horseshoe-like shapes surrounding the legs of its central subject were originally flowers.
{Three Studies} for Figures at the {Base} of a {Crucifixion}