Head I [SEP] creator
Head I
Head I is a relatively small oil and tempera on hardboard painting by the Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon. Completed in 1948, it is the first in a series of six heads, the remainder of which were painted the following year in preparation for a November 1949 exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in London. Like the others in the series, it shows a screaming figure alone in a room, and focuses on the open mouth. The work shows a skull which has disintegrated on itself and is
gained fame as military commander for his brother, Adalberon I of Metz. Because she outlived her husband by twenty years, she was head of the household and ran the estate and lands until their children had reached adulthood.
They had the following children:
- Reginar, count of Bastogne (d. 18 Apr 963)
- Henry (d. 6 Sep 1000)
- Godfrey (935/940 – 3 Sep 995/1002), count of Verdun
- Adalberon (935/940 – 23 Jan 989), archbishop of Reims 969