Landscape, 1978 Oil and pastel on canvas 78 x 58 in. (198 x 147.5 cm) This is the first landscape painting Bacon had completed since 1963. Martin Harrison points out that Bacon's return to the format "was sustained in the seascapes he painted over the last decade." (Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: In Camera (London: The Estate of Francis Bacon Publishing, 2016) p.126) According to Martin Harrison "The uppermost of the two red arrows appears to have been added after the change to cobalt blue, as

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