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 ...

Unlike Dürer, a virtuosic master of proliferating detail, Bacon used very pared-down means to convey his very modern sense of horror. You can walk past his paintings and feel unmoved.

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

Art History The Haunting Francis Bacon Work That Inspired Heath Ledger’s Joker The artist is a firm favourite of director Christopher Nolan.

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 ...

Analysis: There may be no obvious traces of Ireland or Irishness in Bacon's work, yet his studio now resides in the heart of Dublin The artist Francis Bacon is one of the most recognised names in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Portrait Gallery show is also an appreciation of Bacon’s innate understanding of how to make a painting work.

Francis Bacon – Human Presence review: the outrage king of British art at his terrifying best, and worst ...