 Perhaps it was the red [sic] background that made me think of "entrails", of an anatomy or a vivisection and feel squeamish".The triptych caused a sensation, and overnight turned Bacon into the most controversial painter in the country.Reviewing for the "New Statesman and Nation", Raymond Mortimer wrote that the panels "seems served from Picasso's Crucifixion [1930], but further distorted, with ostrich necks and button heads protruding from bags—the whole effect gloomily phallic, like Bosch without the humour.