Study for a Bullfight, Number 2

{{Short description|1969 painting by Francis Bacon}}

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{{Infobox artwork

| title = Study for a Bullfight, Number 2

| image = Study for a Bullfight, Number 2.jpg

| image_upright = 1.3

| artist = Francis Bacon

| year = {{start date|1969}}

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| medium = oil on canvas

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| height_metric = 198,3

| width_metric = 147,5

| museum = Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon

| city = Lyon

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Study for a Bullfight, Number 2 is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon executed in 1969.{{Cite web |title=Etude pour une corrida n° 2 |work=mba-lyon.fr |publisher=Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon |access-date=8 September 2019 |url= http://www.mba-lyon.fr/mba/sections/fr/collections-musee/peintures/oeuvres-peintures/xxe_siecle/bacon_etude_corrida }}

The painting now belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, which acquired it in 1997. It is the second on a series of three paintings which also include Study for a Bullfight, Number 1 and Study for a Bullfight, Number 3, all executed in 1969.