30.5 x 35.5 cm. (12 x 14 in.) ...

A painting by Francis Bacon of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction after it fetched 142 million dollars in New York. The triptych ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said ...

54.7 x 43 cm. (21.5 x 16.9 in.) ...

Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud was a 1967 oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon, which he destroyed before it left his studio, though it was photographed and is ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked ... individuals who sat regularly for Bacon and with whom he remained preoccupied for decades – including Lucian Freud, Soho’s Colony Room proprietor Muriel ...

Featuring works from the 1950s onwards, this exhibition will explore Francis Bacon’s ... to large-scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked? For most of the second half of the ... The news that the NPG’s show groups its exhibits around particular individuals who sat regularly for Bacon and with whom he ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery ...

Francis Bacon is something of a Marmite painter. There are those who love him – his searing honesty and the existential search to extract the essence of a subject – and those who dislike the violence, ...