Study from Innocent X is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon, from 1962. It is held in a private collection.Study from Innocent X, 1962, francis-bacon.com Based on Portrait of Innocent X (c. 1650) by Diego Velázquez, the work depicts a distorted image of the red-robed Pope Innocent X, sitting on a dark red chair on a platform inside a cuboid cage indicated by thin black lines, standing on a light brownish yellow floor with a curved lighter red wall behind.
It measures .
Bacon later remade Study from Innocent X, as Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971.
See also List of paintings by Francis Bacon
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