Figure with Meat

1. Lucien Freud, London, by 1955; sold through Hanover Gallery, London, to the Art Institute, 1956.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Francis Bacon, Jan. 19–Feb. 19, 1955, organized by Peter Watson, exh. pamphlet, cat. 13, as “Study After Velázquez.”
• Arts Club of Chicago, Surrealism Then and Now, Oct. 1–30, 1958, cat. 1, as “Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef.”
• London, Tate Gallery, Francis Bacon, May 24–July 1, 1962, cat. 42, as “Study After Velázquez.”
• New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Francis Bacon, Oct. 18, 1963–Jan. 12, 1964, cat. 27, as Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Study After Velázquez); Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 24–Feb. 23, 1964,
• Montreal, Expo 67, Man and His World, International Fine Arts Exhibition, Apr. 28–Oct. 27, 1967, cat. 123, as Figure with Meat (Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef).
• Des Moines Art Center, Art in Western Europe: The Postwar Years, 1945–1955, Sept. 19–Oct. 29, 1978, cat. 4, as Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Study After Velázquez).
• London, Tate Gallery, Francis Bacon, May 22–Aug.18, 1985, cat. 25; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Oct. 19, 1985–Jan. 5, 1986; Nationalgalerie Berlin, Feb. 7–Mar. 31, 1986 (London only).
• Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art, Oct. 15, 2003–Jan.18, 2004, cat. 136; Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Feb. 8–June 27, 2004 (Basel only).
• Dusseldorf, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Real, Sept. 16, 2006–Jan. 7, 2007, cat. 13.
• Norwich, England, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Francis Bacon: Paintings from the 1950s, Sept. 26–Dec. 10, 2006; Milwaukee Art Museum, Jan. 29–Apr. 15, 2007, Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, May 5–July 30, 2007 (Milwaukee and Buffalo only).
• Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Francis Bacon: Five Decades, Nov. 17, 2012–Feb. 24, 2013.
• Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj, July 26–Nov. 13, 2016, no cat. no.

• “Exhibitions,” “Architectural Review” 117, 700 (April 1955), pp. 270–71 (ill.).
• “Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago” (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 17, as “Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef.”
• John Rothenstein, “British Art Since 1900: An Anthology” (Phaidon, 1962), pl. 133 (color ill.), as “Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef.”
• Jane Harrison, “Dissent on Francis Bacon,” “Arts” 38, 3 (December 1963), p. 23 (color ill.), as “Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Study After Velázquez).”
• Ronald Alley, “Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné” (Thames and Hudson, 1964), cat. 90 (ill.).
• John Russell, "Francis Bacon," "Aujourd'hui" 9, 50 (July 1965), p. 65 (color ill.), as "Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Study After Velázquez).
• “Instituto de Arte de Chicago,” El mundo de los museos (Madrid: Editorial Codex, 1967), pp. 16 (ill.), 81 (color ill.).
• H. H. Arnason, “History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture” (Harry N. Abrams, 1968), p. 532, pl. 223 (color ill.), as “Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Study After Velázquez)”; 2nd ed. (1977), p. 559, pl. 229 (color ill.), as “Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Study After Velázquez)”; 3rd ed. (1986), p. 435, pl. 208 (color ill.), as “Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef (Study After Velázquez).”
• Michael Greenwood, “Mark Prent,” “Artscanada” 29, 2 (Spring 1972), p. 40 (ill.), as “Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef.”
• David W. Boxer, “The Early Work of Francis Bacon” (Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1975), pp. 81, 117, fig. 60 (ill.).
• Lorenza Trucchi, “Francis Bacon,” trans. John Shepley (Harry N. Abrams, 1975), p. 14, as “Figure with Meat, 1960,”cat. 41 (ill.).
• Hugh M. Davies, “Francis Bacon: The Early and Middle Years, 1928–1958,” Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts (Garland Publishing, 1978), p. 116.

Francis Bacon, London

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of the Artist by Francis Bacon

Art Institute of Chicago

Francis Bacon Walking on Primrose Hill, London

Art Institute of Chicago

Armchair

Art Institute of Chicago

The Social Graces

Art Institute of Chicago

Pity the Blind

Art Institute of Chicago

Edtaonisl (Ecclesiastic)

Art Institute of Chicago

Têtes-paysage

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