''Figure in a landscape'' is a 1945 painting by the Irish-born artist

Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon led the advancement of both ...

. Based on a photograph of Eric Hall dozing on a seat in

Hyde Park Hyde Park may refer to: Places England * Hyde Park, London, a Royal Park in Central London * Hyde Park, Leeds, an inner-city area of north-west Leeds * Hyde Park, Sheffield, district of Sheffield * Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester Austra ...

, also the basis of another painting, ''Figure in a landscape'' (1945), which was bought by Diana Watson and later in 1950 by the

Tate Gallery Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

(with the support of Graham Sutherland, then a trustee (1948–1954)).Figure in a Landscape, Tate Modern
/ref> ''Figure Study'' (1945) was destroyed; "Figure Study I2 and "Figure Study II" are from 1945 or 1946. ''Study for Man with Microphones'' (1946) was shown at the

Lefevre Gallery The Lefevre Gallery (or The Lefevre Galleries) was an art gallery in London, England, operated by Alex. Reid & Lefevre Ltd. The gallery was opened at 1a, King Street, St James's, in 1926, when rival art dealers Alexander Reid and Ernest Lefe ...

, (''British Painters Past and Present'' July–August 1946), and at the Anglo-French Art Centre, (''Seventh Exhibition'' November – December 1946). Bacon was clearly unhappy with this picture: it was listed as an abandoned work in the 1964 catalogue raisonné, and was passed on to the Estate in 1992 as a slashed canvas. At some point in 1947–1948, Bacon returned to make a second version, ''Study for Man with Microphones'' (1947–48) (shown February to March 1948, at the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

, New York, ''Contemporary Painters'' (last (monochrome) plate in the catalogue by James Thrall Soby) as ''Study for Man with Microphones'' (1946); and from October to November 1962 in ''Francis Bacon'' at the Galleria d'Arte Galatea,

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

as ''Gorilla with Microphones'' (1945–46)).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Figure In A lAndscApe Study for Crouching Nude, 1952 1945 paintings Collection of the Tate galleries