Bacon and Bullfight

In the second half of the 20th century Francis Bacon (1909-1992) traveled to France and Spain, where for the first time he attended a bullfight. His experience with bullfights and his admiration for Picasso and Lorca moved him to represent his personal view of the world of bullfighting. In 1969 he painted Three Studies For A Bullfight and in 1991, one year before his death , he painted Study Of A Bull, in which a bull seems to emerge from a black rectangle.