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 ...

The original 5in by 7in painting (12.7cm by 17.8cm ... Frank Barratt/Getty Images Lucian Freud (pictured) and his friend Francis Bacon produced several different pieces of each other In the ...

Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and Dame Lucie Rie are included ... For the most part, it was Freud who selected the sitter for his paintings, but in this case, it was Minton who commissioned the ...

In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...

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 ...

There’s a limit to how much you can say about Francis Bacon; to how many times you ... fellow artist Lucian Freud is brutish and ape-like, the artist Isabel Rawsthorn is clear, confident ...

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 ...

Moraes and Bacon met in a bar in 1949 ... She was also briefly a lover of Lucian Freud, who depicted her in a 1952 painting called Girl in a Blanket. According to her autobiography, the pair ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century ... He went on to study at the Central School of Art and Goldsmiths College, befriending Francis Bacon and associating with a ...

This double portrait was one of the five Bacon artworks stolen in Madrid (Spanish police photo, May 2016) Spanish police say they have recovered three of five paintings by Francis Bacon that were ...