Francis Bacon: Paintings 1944-1962

Photographs, sketches, a Pope, stills from Edweard Muybridge, Battleship Potëmkin (1925), etc. Screaming faces including Study for the Nurse in the Film "Battleship Potemkin" (1957), Study for a Portrait: Man Screaming (1953) and Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953). Paintings including Head IV (1949), Study of a Baboon (1955), Figure in a Landscape (1945) Dog I (1952), Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944), Pope I (1951), Chimpanzee (1955), Sphinx II (1953). Flashes of various Popes, with Study for Portrait V (1953), Two Figures (1953), Figure with Meat (1954). One of Three Studies for a Crucifixion (1962), and others including After the Life Mask of William Blake (1955), Man in Blue IV (1954), and Sphinx III (1954). Various life studies and portraits including Study for a Portrait (1953), Man with Headwound (1955), Lying Figure (1958), Sleeping Figure (1959), Study for Innocent X (1962). Left and right panels of Three Studies for a Crucifixion (1962); more portraits. Credits

Photographed by David Muir;
Edited by Kevin Brownlow;
Executive Producer Dudley Shaw Ashton;
Associate Jack Carruthers;
Music by Elisabeth Lutyens;
Conducted by John Hollingworth;
Script and Film Treatment by David Thompson.
A film made for the Arts Council of Great Britain and Marlborough Fine Art Ltd.
by Samaritan Films, London, England.
A film made for the Arts Council of Great Britain.