# List of paintings by Francis Bacon

This is an incomplete list of paintings by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992).

## 1930s
### c.1929–30

* Painting (Oil on canvas, 91.5 cm × 61 cm, Private Collection (long term loan to the Tate Gallery))

### 1933

* Crucifixion (Oil on canvas, 60.5 cm × 47 cm, Private collection of Damien Hirst (Murderme), London)

### c.1936

* Figures in a Garden (aka Seated Figure, The Fox and the Grapes, and Goering and his Lion Cub) (Oil on canvas, 74 cm × 94 cm, Tate Gallery, London)

## 1940s
### 1944

* Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (Oil and pastel on Sundeala board, 94 cm × 74 cm (37 in × 29 in), Tate, London) (large triptych)

### 1945

* Figure in a landscape (Oil on canvas, 144.8 cm × 128.3 cm, Tate, London)

### 1945–46

* Figure Study I (Oil on canvas, 123 cm × 105.5 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh)
* Figure Study II (Oil on canvas, 145 cm x 129 cm, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield)

### 1946

* Painting (Oil and pastel on linen, 198 cm × 132 cm (77+7⁄8 in × 52 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City)

### 1947–48

* Head I (Oil and tempera on hardboard, 100.3 cm × 74.9 cm (39.5 x 29.5 in), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)

### 1949

* Head II (Oil on canvas, 80 x 63.6 cm (31.4 x 25 in), Ulster Museum, Belfast)
* Head III (Oil on canvas, 81 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in), Private collection)
* Head IV (Man with a Monkey) (Oil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm, (32.4 x 26 in) Private collection)
* Head V (Oil on canvas) Private collection)
* Head VI (Oil on canvas, 93.2 cm × 76.5 cm (36.6 x 30.1in), Arts Council Collection, London)
* Study from the human body (Oil on canvas, 147.2 × 130.6 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)

## 1950s
### 1951

* Pope I – Study after Pope Innocent X by Velazquez (Oil and sand on canvas, 197.8 x 137.4 cm (78 x 54 in), Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen)

### 1952

* Man Eating a Leg of Chicken (Oil on canvas), Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia)
* Man Kneeling in Grass (Oil on canvas, 198 x 137 cm (78 x 54 in), Private collection, Milan)
* Study for Crouching Nude (Oil and sand on canvas, 137.1 x 198.1 cm (54 × 78 in), Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan)
* Study of a Dog (Oil on canvas, 198.1 cm × 137.2 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
* Study of a Figure in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, 198.12 x 137.16 cm (78 x 54 in), Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.)
* Study for a Portrait (aka Businessman I and Man's Head) (Oil on canvas, 66.1 cm × 56.1 cm, Tate Gallery, London)

### 1953

* Two Figures (Oil on canvas, 152.5 cm × 116.5 cm (60.0 in × 45.9 in), Private Collection.
* Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (Oil on canvas, 59+7⁄8 in × 46+3⁄8 in (152 cm × 118 cm), Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines)
* Study of a Baboon (Oil on canvas, 198.3 x 137.3 cm (6.6 x 54 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
* Study from the Human Body (Oil on canvas, 147.2 x 130.6 cm (57.8 x 51.4in), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
* Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, 152.3 x 117 cm (60 x 46 in), Private collection)
* Study for Portrait VI (Oil on canvas, 1,510 mm × 1,160 mm (59+5⁄8 in × 45+3⁄4 in), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota)
* Study for Portrait VII (Oil on canvas, 152.3 x 117 cm (60 x 46 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
* Study of the Sphinx (Oil on canvas, 214 x 153 cm (84.2 x 60.2 in), Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut)

### 1954

* Man in Blue IV (Oil on canvas, 137 × 197.96 cm (53.94 x 77.95 in), mumok, Vienna)
* Figure with Meat

### 1955

* Head in Grey (Oil on canvas, 60.9 x 51 cm (24.1 × 20.1 in), Walker Art Center, Minnesota)
* Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, 60.1 cm × 50.8 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
* Figure Sitting (The Cardinal) (Oil on canvas, 178.5 cm × 143.5 cm (70.2 x 56.4in), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent)

### 1956

* Figures in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, 150 x 107.5 cm (59 x 42.3 in), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham)
* Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 198.12 × 137.16 cm (78 x 54 in), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas)
* Study for Figure No. 4 (Oil on canvas, 152.4 cm × 116.8 cm (60 x 45.9in), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide)
* Study for Portrait, Number IV (After the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, 61 cm × 51 cm (24+1⁄8 in × 20 in)), Museum of Modern Art, New York City) (small triptych)

### 1956–57

* Study for Portrait No.6 (Oil on canvas, 149 x 116 cm (58.6 x 45.6 in), Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne)

### 1957

* Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh IV (Oil on canvas, 152.4 cm × 116.8 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
* Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh VI (Oil on canvas, 198.1 cm × 142.2 cm (78 x 56 in), Arts Council Collection, London)
* Study for Chimpanzee (Oil on canvas, 152.4 cm × 117.0 cm (60 in × 46+1⁄16 in), Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice)

### 1958

* Pope with Owls (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 1422 cm (78 x 56in), Museum of Modern Arts, Brussels)

## 1960s
### 1959–60

* Walking Figure (Oil on canvas, 158.12 × 142.24 cm (78 x 56 in), Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas)

### 1960

* Nude (Oil on canvas 152,4 x 119,7 cm, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt)
* Seated Figure (Oil on canvas, 153 cm × 119 cm (60+1⁄8 in × 47 in), Private collection)
* Study of a Child (Oil on canvas 152.5 x 118 cm (60 x 46.5 in), Botero Museum, Bogotá)

### 1961

* Reclining Woman (Oil on canvas, 198.8 cm × 141.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
* Seated Figure (Oil on canvas, 165.1 cm × 142.2 cm, Tate Gallery, London)

### 1962

* Figure in a Room (Oil on canvas, 198.8 × 144.7 cm (78.2 × 56.9 in), Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul)
* Study for Three Heads (Oil on canvas, 35.9 x 30.8 cm (14 x 12 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
* Three Studies for a Crucifixion (Oil and sand on canvas, 200 cm × 140 cm (78 in × 57 in), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City) (large triptych)

### 1963

* Figure with Two Owls, Study for Velazquez (Oil on canvas, 198.12 x 144.78 cm (78 x 57 in), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco)
* Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 142.2 cm (65 x 56 in),Sheldon Solow)
* Study for Portrait on Folding Bed (Oil on canvas, 198.1 cm × 147.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
* Study for Self Portrait (Oil on canvas, 165.2 x 142.6 cm (64.9 x 56.1 in), National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff)
* Three Studies for the Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (Oil on canvas, each 36 cm × 31 cm (14+1⁄8 in × 12+1⁄8 in)), Museum of Modern Art, New York City) (small triptych)

### 1964

* Study for the Portrait of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.8 cm (78 x 54 in), Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
* Three Figures in a Room 1964 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris) (large triptych)
* Study for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 140 cm, (60 x 55 in), Private collection)

### 1965

* Crucifixion (Oil and acrylic on canvas, 197.5 cm x 147 cm (78 x 58 in), Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich) (large triptych)

### 1966

* Three Studies for a Portrait of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)
* Portrait of George Dyer Talking (Oil on canvas, 198.2 x 147.3 cm (78 x 58 in), Private collection)
* Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne (Oil on canvas, 81.3 cm × 68.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London)

### c.1967

* Untitled (Head) (Oil on canvas, 33.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in), Private collection)

### 1967

* Study for Head of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 36 cm × 30.5 cm, Private collection, long term loan to Tate Gallery, London)
* Triptych inspired by T.S Elliot's Poem Sweeney Agonistes (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78.25 x 57.25 in), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.) (large triptych)
* Three Studies for George Dyer (1967)
* Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud (1967)

### 1968

* Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendants (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran) (large triptych)

### 1969

* Three Studies of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)

## 1970s
### 1970

* Triptych 1970 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra) (large triptych)
* Three Studies of the Male Back (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57.5 in), Kunsthaus, Zurich)
* Triptych – Studies of the Human Body (1970) (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 58.5 in), Private collection of Jacques Hachuel, Paris) (large triptych)
* Triptych – Studies from the Human Body (1970) (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Jacques Hachuel, Paris) (large triptych)

### 1971

* Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971 198 cm × 148 cm (78 in × 58+1⁄8 in)
* In Memory of George Dyer (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Beyler Foundation, Riehen, near Basel) (large triptych)

### 1972

* Triptych–August 1972 (Oil on canvas, 198.1 x 147.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
* Three Studies of Figures on Beds (Oil and tempere on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)

### 1973

* Three Portraits: Posthumous Portrait of George Dyer, Self-portrait, and Portrait of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Beyler Foundation, Riehen, near Basel) (large triptych)
* Triptych, May–June 1973 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Esther Grether, Switzerland) (large triptych)

### 1974

* Three Studies for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 35.6 x 30.5 cm, (14 x 12 in), Private collection) (small triptych)
* Triptych March 1974 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection, Madrid) (large triptych)
* Triptych 1974–1977 (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Joe Lewis) (large triptych)

### 1975

* Three Studies for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, each 35.5 x 30.5 cm, (14 x 12 in), Private collection) (small triptych)
* Three Figures and Portrait (Oil on canvas, 198.1 cm × 147.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London)

### 1976

* Study for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 198.0 x 147.5 cm (77.9 x 58 in), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)
* Triptych 1976 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Roman Abramovich) (large triptych)

### 1979

* Triptych – Studies of the Human Body (1979) (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)

### 1979–80

* Three Studies for a Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, each 37 cm × 32 cm (14+3⁄4 in × 12+1⁄2 in), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) (small triptych)

## 1980s
### 1981

* Triptych inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 58 in), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo) (large triptych)

### 1981–82

* Triptych November 1981 – January 1982 (left panel) (Oil, pastel and transfer lettering on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm, Private collection, the Estate of Francis Bacon)

### 1982

* Three Studies for Portrait (Mick Jagger) (Oil and pastel on canvas, each panel 35.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in), Private collection, New York City) (small triptych)

### 1983

* Three Studies for a Self Portrait (Oil on canvas, 35 cm × 30 cm (13+3⁄4 in × 12 in), Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu)
* Triptych 1983 (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Juan Abelló) (large triptych)

### 1984

* Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)

### 1986

* Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Marlborough International Fine Art) (large triptych)
* Portrait of Gilbert de Botton Speaking (Oil on canvas, Private collection)

### 1987

* Triptych 86–87 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)
* Triptych 1987 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon, London) (large triptych)

### c.1988

* Blood on Pavement (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection)

### 1988

* Portrait of John Edwards (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon, London)
* Jet of Water (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomlinson Hill, New York)
* Second Version of Triptych 1944 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Tate, London) (large triptych)

## 1990s
### 1991

* Study for a Portrait March 1991 (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh)
* Triptych 1991 (Oil on linen, 198.1 x 147.6 cm (78 x 57 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City) (large triptych)