Study of a Bull, the image of the animal is ambiguous. The bull seems to be emerging from a black rectangle towards the light, while at the same time disappearing into the adjacent white shape. As is customary in bullfights, the animal emerges from the darkness (bull pen) into the light of the arena, where the bullfighter who will kill him is awaiting in his fancy traje de luces.

In Bacon’s painting, the bull looks weak, and it is not clear whether he is trying to escape from the bullring or enter it. In this last work, Bacon was likely trying to express that he was dying and was aware of it