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Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X.
1953 painting by Francis Bacon
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About Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X is a 1953 painting by Irish-British artist Francis Bacon. It shows a distorted version of Pope Innocent X, head of the Catholic Church from 1644 to 1655, as depicted in Spanish artist Diego Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X. After Head VI (1949), the work is one of the first in a series of around 50 variants of Velázquez's portrait which Bacon painted from 1949 to 1971.
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- 1953