Study for a Bullfight, Number 2

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Study for a Bullfight, Number 2

Artist	Francis Bacon
Year	1969 (1969)
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	198,3 cm× 147,5 cm(781 in× 581 in)
Location	Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon

Study for a Bullfight, Number 2 is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon executed in 1969.^[1] The painting now belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, which acquired it in 1997. It is the second on a series of three paintings which also include Study for a Bullfight, Number 1 and Study for a Bullfight, Number 3, all executed in 1969.

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↑ "Etude pour une corrida n° 2". mba-lyon.fr. Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon. Retrieved 8 September 2019.

v t e Francis Bacon (artist)
List of paintings
Crucifixions	Crucifixion (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) 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 (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	In Memory of George Dyer (1971) 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)
Female portraits	Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (1963) Three Studies for a Portrait of Muriel Belcher (1966) Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho (1967)
Self-portraits	Three Studies for Self Portrait (1973) Self-Portrait (1973) Three Studies for Self-Portrait (1979) Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 (1985–86)
Summary articles	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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