Study for Crouching Nude
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| Study for Crouching Nude |
| Francis Bacon, 1952 |
| Oil on canvas |
Study for Crouching Nude is a 1952 painting by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon.
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Painted in the Spring of 1952, Study for Crouching Nude, the perched figure of which may derive in form from Muybridge (Man Performing a Standing Jump), was first shown at Recent Trends in Realist Painting (organized by Robert Melville and David Sylvester) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, from July to August 1952, in place of Study for Portrait (1949).
