Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971

Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971 is a 1971 painting by Francis Bacon. It failed to sell at auction in October 2017 with an estimate of £60-80 million. It had not been on public display for 45 years until viewings for its 2017 auction.[1] It is a reinterpretation of his 1962 painting Study from Innocent X. Bacon's lover George Dyer is portrayed in the right side of the painting. The work was shown at the 1971 retrospective of Bacon's work at the Grand Palais.[2]

Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971

Artist	Francis Bacon
Year	1971 (1971)

The juxtaposition of the two figures has been likened to a devotional diptych, Christie's described as "icons of the spirit and the flesh - the sacred and profane".[2]

References

"Christie's Fails to Sell Bacon Painting, Frieze Week's Star Lot, at $130 M. Contemporary Sale in London". Art News. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
"Icons of the spirit and the flesh — Francis Bacon's two greatest obsessions". Christie's. Retrieved 11 June 2018.

Francis Bacon (artist)
Crucifixions	Crucifixion (1933) Crucifixion with Skull (1933) Wound for a Crucifixion (1933) Fragment of a Crucifixion (1950)
Figures	Figure in a landscape (1945) Painting 1946 (1946) Study for Crouching Nude (1952) Two Figures (1953) (1953) Three Studies from the Human Head (1953) Study for Portrait II (After the Life Mask of William Blake) (1955) Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe (1968) Study for a Bullfight, Number 2 (1969) Three Studies of the Male Back (1970) Blood on the Floor (Painting, 1986) (1986)
Head series	Head I (1949) Head II (1949) Head III (1949) Head IV (1949) Head V (1949) Head VI (1949)
Popes	Study after Velázquez, 1950 Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) Figure with Meat (1954) Untitled (Pope) (c. 1954) Study from Innocent X (1962) Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971 (1971)
Triptychs	Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) Three Studies for a Crucifixion (1962) Three Figures in a Room (1964) Crucifixion (1965) Triptych Inspired by T.S. Eliot's Poem "Sweeney Agonistes" (1967) Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendants (1968) Triptych, 1976 (1976) Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus (1981) Second Version of Triptych 1944 (1988)
Black Triptychs	Triptych–August 1972 (1972) Triptych, May–June 1973 (1973)
Male portraits	Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer (1964) Portrait of George Dyer Talking (1966) Three Studies for George Dyer (1967) Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud (1967) Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) Portrait of Michel Leiris, 1976 (1976)
Female portraits	Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (1963) Three Studies of Muriel Belcher (1966) Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho (1967)
Self-portraits	Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1973) Self-portrait (1973) Three Studies for a Self-Portrait (1979) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1985–86)
Summary articles	List of paintings by Francis Bacon List of large triptychs by Francis Bacon Triptychs by Francis Bacon The Black Triptychs Influences on Francis Bacon
Related	Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (1981 book) Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998 film)

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