One of my favorite artists of all time.
While in Paris in the 1920s, Francis Bacon bought a book on diseases of the mouth with hand colored illustrations (left). The gaping mouth from the book reappears throughout Bacon's paintings, most notably in "Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion" (1945)pic.twitter.com/Te8bXlDKYm
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My former boss has an obsessive love of old dental textbooks and photos of diseased mouths. And here I thought she'd never find true love. *starts building a necrophilia-time machine replete with "Erica + Francis 4-Ever" banner*
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Francis Bacon was gay though
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That would suit Erica to a T. She slept mummy-wrapped in a sheet, wearing a swimmer's nose clip and diving goggles, cotton balls in her ears. Furiously germophobic.
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Camping in Alaska, i see you
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