In the picture of Francis Bacon “Figures in Motion” we see a circus arena with a red carpet.
Figures of wrestlers on the arena are placed, as it were, in a glass transparent prism. An attempt to organize space in Bacon is always present: the prospect, the horizon line, the parameters of three-dimensional space.
Angry men on the arena are transformed into coarse and strong animals: in the mash of bodies you can consider both horse croup and spotted paw of a leopard. But still it is assumed that these are people – the artist, like the camera’s lens, fixes a hunchbacked face and a naked male ass. In the background of the picture in the fracture of the glass is depicted something similar to the head of a goat or an ass.
Related Paintings 
Figures in the Bed by Francis Bacon 
Three sketches of figures at the Crucifixion by Francis Bacon 
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Triptych on the theme of TS Eliot’s poem by Francis Bacon 
In memory of Georges Dyer by Francis Bacon 
Oresteia Aeschyla by Francis Bacon 
Trois études de figures à la crucifixion – Francis Bacon 
Painting by Francis Bacon
Figures in the Bed by Francis Bacon Three sketches of figures at the Crucifixion by Francis Bacon Figures en mouvement – Francis Bacon Triptych on the theme of TS Eliot’s poem by Francis Bacon In memory of Georges Dyer by Francis Bacon Oresteia Aeschyla by Francis Bacon Trois études de figures à la crucifixion – Francis Bacon Painting by Francis Bacon