Head of Francis Bacon, Study No 6 (Head & Teeth)

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Head of Francis Bacon, Study No 6 (Head & Teeth)

Artist Clive Barker (Luton, England, born 1940)

SitterSitter is Francis Bacon (Dublin, Ireland, 1909 - 1992)

Date1978

Mediumbrass

ClassificationsSculptures

DimensionsOverall: Height: 37 cm, Width: 19.5 cm, Depth: 23.5 cm
Plinth Size: Height: 136.8 cm, Width: 61 cm, Depth: 61 cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1978 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions and with income from the Macdonald Bequest.

LocationOn Display - Gallery 01

Object numberABDAG000189

Keywords

About MeThis is one in a series of twelve portraits which Clive Barker created of his friend, Francis Bacon. Bacon also executed three studies of Clive Barker.

Barker's images are only sometimes 'portraits' in the accepted sense. Most are about Bacon rather than of him. Using casts from a real set of teeth and ribbed tubing for the windpipe Barker distorts and reinvents his sitter. It is as if Bacon's own violent imagery has had an impact on Barker's interpretation and is fighting its way out of these calm, almost classic heads, creating an uncomfortable and entirely convincing tension.

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Doesn't it look like C3PO from Star Wars?

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Gallery 01 - Collecting Art