Francis Bacon, a British painter of Irish origin, was born in Dublin on 28 October 1909 and moved to London in 1925, where he worked as an interior decorator and furniture designer.

Bacon was a self-taught painter and began to paint as early as 1930; however, he was not satisfied with his results and temporarily gave up that activity. After World War II, he turned to painting once again and shocked audiences with the neo-expressionist style of the blurred and torn shapes of his portraits.

His pictures are characterized by a pessimistic basic attitude - life is considered to be a symbol of hopelessness. Through his figures, distorted by brutality and pain, he tried to illustrate the horror of human isolation and disintegration. Some of his pictures reflect the influence of the painter Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Vélazquez. Bacon was guided by Surrealism and was one of the most important representatives of a visionary painting technique. He found inspiration in slaughterhouses, press photographs or medical books, but he also got ideas from artists such as, for example, Hieronymus Bosch, William Blake, Johann Heinrich Füssli and Vincent van Gogh.

The themes of his portraits oscillate between brutality and despair, aggression and pain – his figures are victims of the deforming forces in society. In his later works, Bacon returned repeatedly to the crucifixion theme.

As a result, a series of large triptychs were created. Francis Bacon, whose works influenced contemporary painting in England and Europe, died in Madrid on 28 October 1992, under his beloved Spanish sun.