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Francis Bacon’s ‘Fragment of a Crucifixion’, 1950, photo by Hugo Maertens, and ‘Second Version of Triptych 1944’, 1988, photo by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd (© The Estate of Francis ...

His breakthrough came with Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, a trio of ferocious quasi-humans that he completed during two drunken weeks in 1944.

It inspired what is surely one of the most harrowing crucifixions ever painted: in “Fragment of a Crucifixion” (1950), Bacon’s Christ is an ugly, bone-white apparition, swooping down the ...

Raw, dark and visceral, Bacon’s images were disquieting from the outset. Just look at 1944’s “Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion,” his first masterpiece.

The Turbulent Life of Francis Bacon Bacon’s contradictions make him the rare artist who warrants an infatuated 900-page biography.

When Bacon saw Old Master paintings of the Crucifixion—he especially loved Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece, with Jesus almost rotting on the Cross—they lined up in his mind with ...

A commission from the Francis Bacon Estate to write about the artist’s work was, indeed, the genesis of this novella.