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    Francis Bacon: Man and Beast review – the brutal truth

    Jan 30, 2022 3 minutes

    The first hint of what is to come is a large bared canine tooth, in (1948). The painting featured in Francis Bacon’s debut London exhibition the year after it was made, and it greets you now in an opening room of its own at the . The human form in the painting, which emerges out of a black background within a sketchy geometry of a cage, has been reduced to a contorted mouth arising out of a body that suggests a side of lamb or a pork belly. It is that enlarged fang that holds your attention, though, gesturing

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