British painter, printmaker and probably the most famous and controversial of the British contemporary artists. Without any formal training, this artist gained immediate recognition in 1945, after Laferve Gallery exhibited his Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (Tate Gallery, London).

In the words of the Artist: ‘ (I try) to paint like Velasquez but with the texture of a hippopotamus skin. ‘ His artworks are characteristically painted with strong, jumbled brushwork normally depicting solitary or sad figures.

In 1985, Alan Bowness, the director of the Tate Gallery in London wrote: ‘ Bacon is surely the greatest living painter; no artist in our century has presented the human predicament with such insight and feeling. ´