Figure in a landscape

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Figure in a landscape
Francis Bacon (painter), 1945
Oil on canvas
Tate Modern

Figure in a landscape is a 1945 painting by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon.

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Based on a photograph of Eric Hall dozing on a seat in Hyde Park, also the basis of another painting held in the Lefevre Figure in a landscape (1945) which was bought by Diana Watson and later in 1950 by the Tate gallery (with the support of Graham Sutherland, then a trustee (1948 – 1954).

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