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Wide shot Tate Britain2. Midshot exhibition poster3. Pull out Study after Vel�zquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X4. Close up and pan Study after Vel�zquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eTate Britain, London, 9 September 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot Tate Britain\u003cbr/\u003e2. Midshot exhibition poster\u003cbr/\u003e3. Pull out Study after Vel�zquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up and pan Study after Vel�zquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wideshot Three Studies for a Crucifixion\u003cbr/\u003e6. Pan down Three Studies for a Crucifixion \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Stephens, Francis Bacon curator, Tate Britain\u003cbr/\u003e\" Well I think his most famous work is probably the three studies of the figures of the base of the crucifixion that he made just at the end of the second world war, which was exhibited in London. The same time that the concentration camps were opened and revealed. He immediately became associated with that sort of sense of post-war anxiety\".\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wideshot Study for Portrait of Van Gogh VI  \u003cbr/\u003e9. Tilt down Study for Portrait of Van Gogh VI\u003cbr/\u003e10. Pan Study for Portrait of Van Gogh VI\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Stephens, Francis Bacon curator, Tate Britain\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's in ten chronological sections, which also each focus on a kind of aspect of his work, of not a subject matter, but a certain format, or set of concerns. The one exception is a room where we bring together the three great crucifixion triptics that he made in the key moments of his career. One at the end of the wqr, one in the sixties and then one a little, a few years later. They were always turning points and in a way a summary of the key concerns behind his work.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Midshot Three Studies For Figures at the Base of a crucifixion \u003cbr/\u003e13. Various panshots Three Studies For Figures at the base of a crucifixion \u003cbr/\u003e14. Various photos from Francis Bacon exhibition information chart\u003cbr/\u003e15. Pullout Self Portrait\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close up Three Studies for a Self Portrait\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wideshot Study from the Human Body \u003cbr/\u003e18. Tilt up Study from the Human Body\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexis Parr, friend of John Edwards who inherited Bacon's works\u003cbr/\u003e \"I'm a very, very good friend of John Edwards, who was Francis Bacon's last companion and a dear friend of Bacon. In fact, so dear, he sort of stuck two fingers to the establishment and left his entire fortune to John Edwards which was a huge kind of scandal at the time because everyone said he was an illiterate East Ender.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Photograph of John Edwards at exhibition\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexis Parr, friend of John Edwards who inherited Bacon's works\u003cbr/\u003e\" He tells me stories about how his mother used to cook Francis Bacon steak and kidney pudding in a council flat, while they had fabulous Bacon originals worth millions of pounds on the walls of the flat\".\u003cbr/\u003e22. Woman at exhibition\u003cbr/\u003e23. Pan photos Bacon, Edwards and Dyer\u003cbr/\u003e24. Close up Dyer in Bacon's studio\u003cbr/\u003eSotheby's, London, 8 September 2008\u003cbr/\u003e25. Set up Damien Hirst at Sotheby's auction house  \u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE (English) Damien Hirst, Artist\u003cbr/\u003e\"Umm I've always loved Francis Bacon as a painter, you know I mean he's somebody that was you know around, you know is not like I think when I was a kind I went in the art library and I looked at all the books of all the artists and thought 'wow, wouldn't it be amazing if I could get a book about me on the shelves with all the other artists'. It just seemed like so out of reach...  And then when I moved down to London, you know, Francis Bacon was a hero of mine, I looked at his paintings, I thought he was great, you know I was painting myself and I just made bad copies of  Bacon's. And so I sort of sidestepped into sort of sculpture, which came a bit more naturally to me.  And when I came to London he was actually around so I sort of saw him. So he's probably the first sort of connection with the... You know, as a living artist that was a person, so it wasn't like this mythical figure in some way that was unattainable.\"\u003cbr/\u003eTate Britain, London September 9 2008\u003cbr/\u003e27. Pan from Study from the Human Body to Triptych\u003cbr/\u003eA major retrospective of art work by Francis Bacon is about to go on show at Tate Britain in London.\u003cbr/\u003eHe's one of the world's most famous artists, known for his twisted images of people and animals, often splattered with paint.\u003cbr/\u003eThe strange world of Francis Bacon - one of the world's most significant and celebrated artists.\u003cbr/\u003eTate Britain in London is hosting this major retrospective of his work ahead of the artist's upcoming centenary in 2009.  Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909 and died in Madrid in 1992, aged 82. \u003cbr/\u003eExhibition highlights include his infamous portraits of Pope Innocent X and celebrated triptychs such as Three Studies for a Crucifixion, 1962. \u003cbr/\u003eSixty five of the artist's works are on display at the Tate, arranged over 10 rooms.\u003cbr/\u003eThey reflect the development of Bacon's career, which began in 1928 after a brief period as an interior decorator. \u003cbr/\u003eBut there's little from Bacon's early days in Paris and London - the artist destroyed most of his early work. The show opens with 1940s paintings brimming with horror and absurdity. There are bestial human figures, contorted bodies and screaming mouths displaying jagged teeth.\u003cbr/\u003eAmong the exhibited works are:\u003cbr/\u003eStudy after Vel�zquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953; Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 1944; and In Memory of George Dyer, 1971.\u003cbr/\u003eThe latter forms part of a number of triptychs which Bacon painted following the suicide of his lover, George Dyer, in Paris in 1971.\u003cbr/\u003eThe two are rumoured to have met when Bacon caught Dyer robbing his apartment in Kensington in 1964. At the time homosexuality was illegal in England and Wales.  \u003cbr/\u003eFor the last sixteen years of Bacon's life his closest friend was John Edwards. When the artist died he made Edwards the sole heir to his paintings and properties. \u003cbr/\u003eEdwards was the model for at least 30 of Bacon's late portraits.\u003cbr/\u003eAlexis Parr, a friend of John Edwards, says he would tell her tales about \u003cbr/\u003ehow his mother used to cook Francis Bacon steak and kidney pudding in a council flat, while they had fabulous Bacon originals worth millions of pounds on the walls.\u003cbr/\u003eToday, Bacon is widely acknowledged as one of the most prominent artists of 20th-century art, with works such as his Triptych, 1976 selling for $86 million USD at auction, which is a record-breaking figure for a post-war work of art.\u003cbr/\u003eBacon influenced many younger artists, including Lucien Freud, who shares a penchant for painting bruised and mottled flesh, and Damien Hirst, whose pickled sharks and rotting cows' heads show a similar fascination with corporeal decay.\u003cbr/\u003eHirst, a multimillionaire Brit art star, who reportedly 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