“My painting is not violent, it’s life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.”

Francis Bacon
Study for Portrait
1977
oil and dry transfer lettering on canvas
78 x 58 1/8 in.
Price realised
USD 49,812,500