Portrait of Lucian Freud, 1968 Oil on canvas 78 × 58 in. (198 × 147.5 cm) "When conceiving new paintings, it was part of Bacon’s methodology to arrange his figures in relation to armatures or other compositional matrices that reverted to settings he had established in the past." Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné (London: The Estate of Francis Bacon Publishing, 2016) p. 882