Room 30. Great Britain

The works housed in this room are eloquent expressions of two cardinal aspects in twentieth-century British art: a marked interest in the human being and a visionary sensibility, reignited by the experience of the Second World War. The small, interesting collection includes works by the most important figures of the last century: one of the famous studies that Francis Bacon dedicated to the Portrait of Innocent X by Velázquez, a work linked to the genesis of the Crucifixion that Graham Sutherland produced for St. Matthew’s Church in Northampton, and a small, valuable drawing by Henry Moore for a sculpture depicting Christ crucified. The panorama is completed by a spare landscape by Ben Nicholson and a draft for a public commission in London by the sculptor Jacob Epstein.