Francis Bacon – Human Presence review: the outrage king of British art at his terrifying best, and worst - 4/5 Blockbuster show at the National Portrait Gallery overcomes Bacon’s late career ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...

Christie’s employees adjust Francis Bacon’s ‘Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer’ in 2017. Shares of the artwork will soon be sold in an initial public offering.

Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure. The Great Read Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of ...

Bacon was similar. He didn’t paint many images like this one, a 1953 painting at the National Gallery of Art called “Study of a Dog.” But the loping, blurry, foreshortened dog emerging from ...

Spanish police said on Thursday they had recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, worth an estimated €5 million ($5.42 million), and one of five ...

He moved from country of his birth when he was 16 years old, so how is Bacon remembered today in Ireland and, indeed, is he, or can he be, considered an Irish artist?

After all the supposed outrage we’ve seen in art over the past 20 years, there are plenty of works in this essential exhibition that fulfil Bacon’s ambition even now. Francis Bacon – Human ...