Odilon Redon... The Green Death, oil on canvas 1905

Adrien Barrere...Le Sorcier (Grand Guignol) c.1900, Paris

Hans Baldung Grien...woodcut initial 1513

Brascassat Jacques Raymond...La Sorcière oil on canvas 1835

Pierre Molinier 1900-1976) ... Le Baphomet 1968-1971

Born today...Francis Bacon, October 28, 1909, Dublin, Ireland

Head I oil on board 1948

photo @Alastair Thain 1987

''human life is concentrated bestially in the mouth’' ,

Georges Bataille, ‘La Bouche’, Documents, Paris 1930

Damp, jaggèd, like an old man’s mouth drivelling, beyond repair,

Or the toothed gullet of an agèd shark

T. S. Eliot Ash Wednesday (1930)

‘'the forces of the cosmos confronting an intergalactic traveller immobile in his capsule’' 

Deleuze on Bacons Heads series

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery” - Francis Bacon