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 ...

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The faces in his paintings, which dissolve at every turn, are chilling – as a major show at the ...

The poster was for an upcoming retrospective on Francis Bacon and isolated the left-hand panel of the painter’s Triptych (1972). The best of Artnet News in your inbox. Sign up for our daily ...

Please be advised that due to recent global shipping events, there may be fulfillment delays during the post-sale process. Study of a Human Body after Ingres is a lithograph by Francis Bacon after his ...

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 ...

Francis Bacon in 1972 as photographed by Mayotte Magnus. Mayotte Magnus, National Portrait Gallery London. But “Human Presence” is about more than what made Bacon tick; the exhibition also ...

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 ...