 The full @-@ length golden curtain @-@ like folds painted in heavy brush strokes are in part influenced by Degas but also similar to Titian 's 1558 Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto . Bacon adapts the Old Master 's device to isolate and distance the sitter from the viewer ; the black ground @-@ paint is visible through the folds , making the separation all the more affecting . Bacon had already used similar forms in his Chicago panel , and they were to become a feature of his most acclaimed 1950s works , especially in his " screaming popes " . He became fascinated with the veil or curtain as a motif in painting , and collected many reproductions of works by Titian and Degas in which it is employed . He had begun his career as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs in the mid @-@ 1930s , and later said that he liked " rooms hung all round with just curtains hung in even folds " . Veils or curtains appear in Bacon 's earliest works , notably the 1949 Study from the Human Body , always in portraits and always in front of , rather than behind , the figure . 
 The full @-@ length golden curtain @-@ like folds painted in heavy brush strokes are in part influenced by Degas but also similar to Titian <a href='null_genetive' title='1'><mark>'s</mark></a>1558 Portrait of Cardinal Filippo Archinto . Bacon <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>adapts</mark></a> the Old Master <a href='null_genetive' title='3'><mark>'s</mark></a>device to isolate and distance the sitter from the viewer ; the black ground @-@ paint is visible through the folds , making the separation all the more affecting . Bacon <a href='been_done' title='4'><mark>had</mark></a> already used similar forms in his Chicago panel , and they <a href='uninflect' title='5'><mark>were</mark></a> to become a feature of his most acclaimed 1950s works , especially in his " screaming popes " . He became fascinated with the veil or curtain as a motif in painting , and collected many reproductions of works by Titian and Degas in which it is employed . He <a href='been_done' title='6'><mark>had</mark></a> begun his career as an interior decorator and designer of furniture and rugs in the mid @-@ 1930s , and later said that he liked " rooms hung all round with just curtains hung in even folds " . Veils or curtains appear in Bacon <a href='null_genetive' title='7'><mark>'s</mark></a>earliest works , notably the 1949 Study from the Human Body , always in portraits and always in front of , rather than behind , the figure . 
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