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A 2024 book about this artist titled A Self Portrait in Words elaborated on his efforts to block the export of Titian’s Death of Actaeon. Heinrich Hoffman’s photographs of Hitler inspired this artist’s repeated use of tassel cords, including a work showing a disintegrated skull falling in on itself. This artist commissioned John Deakin to provide him with pictures used for his 16 portraits (15[1])of Henrietta Moraes. Dark blobs follow a man (*) vomiting into a sink in a work entitled (10[1])May–June (10[1])1973 (10[1])by this artist, part of his Black Triptychs series. This lover of George Dyer showed cage-like lines surrounding a subject with an open mouth inspired by Battleship Potemkin. That work was modeled after a Velazquez portrait of Innocent X. For 10 points, name this artist of a series of screaming popes. ■END■

ANSWER: Francis Bacon
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