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The artist has built a career treating anatomy as a canvas, as much as a subject.
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 ...
Spanish National Police on Thursday announced that they had recovered a stolen €5 million ($5.4 million) painting by the late British artist Francis Bacon. The small canvas, an 1989 oil entitled ...
Dublin-born artist's €5 million painting, stolen in 2015, recovered in Madrid The painting, worth an estimated €5 million ($5.4 million), was one of five by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon ...
‘There are an awful lot of my paintings I don’t like,’ admitted Francis Bacon While waspishly dismissive of many of the 20th century’s greatest artists, Bacon was also critical of his own work, in ...
One needn’t scratch the surface very deeply before biographical details emerge, particularly in the portraits and late paintings. Bacon’s reputed drinking, gambling, and masochism (he fled one severe ...
Sotheby’s will offer the first in a group of Francis Bacon’s visceral portraits of his lover, George Dyer, for between $30mn and $50mn in May, a potential boost to a downbeat art market.
What would the late painter Francis Bacon make of it all? A portrait of his lover is about to make its stock-market debut, giving the average Joe access to the rarefied world of serious art ...
Francis Bacon, Study for a Self-PortraitTriptych (1985-1986; oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm; London, Marlborough Fine Art) Where to see the works of Francis Bacon Bacon’s works are held in several ...