ATTR FRANCIS BACON Signed Acrylic on Paper Possibly gouache on paper, signature to lower left reads ‘ Francis Bacon’, verso reads ‘London’, subject a portrait of a man with his hand in his forehead, frame measures 13 x 16 inches, window measures 6 3/4 x 10 inches, red cherry wood frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, not examined out of frame. Please Note: All lots that do not carry established documented provenance nor any past record of auction history record are described in the catalog as attributed to , AFTER, or in the style of. TBS Does not guarantee authenticity of stamps labels and or piece. Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British[1] figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures.[2] Rejecting various classifications of his work, Bacon said he strove to render "the