Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Francis Bacon; Lucian Freud NPG x135768

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Harry Diamond

Dublin-born Bacon left Ireland at the age of sixteen, settling permanently in England in 1928. The work Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944, Tate) established him as an artist of international importance. Bacon used imagery from sources as diverse as Velasquez, Van Gogh, the cinema, old snapshots and illustrations of disease. Known for his bold, abstracted figurative paintings with their tormented and powerful view of the human condition, Bacon describes them as 'a direct assault on the nervous system.'... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.