Study for Crouching Nude

Study for Crouching Nude

Artist	Francis Bacon
Year	1952
Type	Oil on canvas

Study for Crouching Nude is a 1952 painting by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon. It was painted in the Spring of 1952, and shows a perched figure whose form was likely derived from Muybridge's Man Performing a Standing Jump. The painting was first displayed – in place of Study for Portrait (1949) – 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.

Francis Bacon

Figures	Figure Study I (1945-56) Figure in a landscape (1945) Painting (1946) Fragment of a Crucifixion (1950) Study from the Human Body (1949) Study for Crouching Nude (1952) Dog (1952) Two Figures (1953) Three Studies from the Human Head (1953) Study for the Nurse in the film Battleship Potemkin (1957) Lying Figure (1966) Three Studies of the Male Back (1970) Three Figures and Portrait (1975) Two Seated Figures (1979) Carcase of Meat and Bird of Prey (1980) Diptych (1982-84) Blood on the Floor (Painting) (1986)

Head series	Head I Head II Head III Head IV Head V Head VI

Popes	Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) Popes I-VI (1953) Figure with Meat (1954) Study from Innocent X (1962)

Triptychs	Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) Three Studies for a Crucifixion (1962) Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe (1963) Three Figures in a Room (1964) Crucifixion (1965) Triptych inspired by T.S Elliot's 'Sweeney Agonistes' (1964) Three Studies for George Dyer (1967) Two Figures Lying on a bed with Attendants (1968) After Muybridge - Study of the Human Figure in Motion - Woman Emptying a Bowl of Water (1970) Triptych 1976 (1976) Second Version of Triptych 1944 (1988)

Portraits	Study for Three Heads (1962) Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes, (1963) Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer (1964) Double Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach (1964) Study for a Portrait (Isabel Rawsthorn) (1964) Three Studies for the Head of Isabel Rawsthorn (1965) Three Studies for a Portrait of Lucian Freud (1965) Portrait of Lucian Freud (on Orange Couch) (1965) Portrait of George Dyer Talking (1966) Three Studies of Muriel Belcher (1966) Study for Head of George Dyer (1966) Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho (1967) Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud (1967) Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) Three Studies of Henrietta Moraes laughing (1969) Female Nude Standing in a Doorway (1972) Three Studies for a Portrait of Peter Beard (1975) Portrait of Michel Leris, 1976 (1976) Portrait of Michel Leris, 1978 (1978) Sphinx: Portrait of Muriel Blecher (1979) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1980)

Black Triptychs	In Memory of George Dyer (1971) Triptych–August 1972 (1972) Triptych, May–June 1973 (1973)

Self-portraits	Self-portrait (1973) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1973) Self-portrait (1973) Seated Figure (1974) Sleeping Figure (1974) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1974) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1976) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1979) Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 (1985)

Summary articles	List of paintings by Francis Bacon List of large triptychs by Francis Bacon Triptychs by Francis Bacon The Black Triptychs Influences on

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