Like a nightmare whispered down the lane, Three Studies later inspired another artist: Ridley Scott, who coated them in obsidian for his 1979 masterpiece, Alien. ![]() In 1944, the artist synthesized his nightmare into Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, a triptych that reimagined the Furies as a set of jagged mandibles bursting through splashes of red. The line, from the Greek tragedian Aeschylus’ trilogy The Oresteia, haunted painter Francis Bacon over the course of his life. ![]() ![]() “The reek of human blood smiles out at me.”
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