Francis Bacon at London's Tate Gallery

Francis Bacon's painting - Paralytic child Walking on All Fours (from Muybridge), 1961
Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands

Paralytic child Walking on All Fours (from Muybridge), 1961
Oil on canvas
Photographs of all kinds were a central source of imagery for Bacon, especially the sequential stop-action pictures by the 19th century American photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

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