10 November 2022
New Exhibition Exploring Freud, Bacon, Auerbach And Andrews Announced
A new exhibition, Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews, has been announced by Gagosian London.
11 October 2021
Yvonne Robinson: A Remarkable 70 Year Career In The Art World
Yvonne Robinson has been a significant figure in the art world for over 70 years. A friend of David Sylvester, Bacon, Freud, Pontus Hulton,
Is Banksy William Hogarth’s Successor? – Edward Lucie-Smith
The appearance of a new Banksy graffito in Bristol more or less confirms his position as the genuine top dog in the current British art scene. His only possible rival is Hockney, now living in comfortable exile in France. Bacon and Freud are dead – in any case one of them was as much Irish […]
27 June 2019
Christie’s Contemporary Evening Auction Sees Cecily Brown, Dubuffet and Basquiat Soar
The London Summer Art week which includes Contemporary auctions at both Christie’s and Sotheby’s, Masterpiece London the art fair recently acquired by Art Basel as well a Olympia and newcomer FairForSaatchi is well on the way.
27 June 2019
Bacon, Freud and Saville Top Sotheby’s Evening Contemporary Sale
Sotheby’s London Evening Sale of Contemporary Art has realised £69,143,300/ $87,811,991/ €77,440,496 (est. £58-82.8 million/ $73.5-105 million / €64.7-92.4 million).
Drink-Up Pay-Up F-Off: Tales from the Colony – London’s Lost Bohemia
Darren Coffield’s new book “Tales from the Colony: the Lost Bohemia of Bacon, Belcher and Board” is an authorised history of London’s most notorious arts club.
2 March 2018
The Human Condition Relationships And Raw Desires – Tate Britain – Sue Hubbard
The 20th century saw God lose his central role within the scheme of human belief and philosophy.
7 February 2017
Hull UK City of Culture Off To A Strong Start
Hull’s year as UK City of Culture is already off to a strong start, with January seeing the reopening of the Ferens Art Gallery and the launch of the new Humber Street Gallery with its first exhibition: COUM Transmissions. Since winning the title in 2013, the city has enjoyed a £1 billion boost in investment and unprecedented visitor numbers.
Bacon, Freud And Hockney New Exhibition Opens At Walker Art Gallery
Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting is a new exhibition curated by artist Chris Stevens and organised by the Sainsbury Centre, the exhibition brings together more than 50 works celebrating the strength of British painting, with some of the best and most influential artists of the last 60 years. Major 20th-century artists are represented, such […]
26 June 2014
Warhol, Doig And Bacon Star In Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale
The market continues to storm ahead, ravenous for great works by great artists. This sale – one of the most exciting London sales in a decade – provides plenty to feed that appetite, with definitive works by Bacon and Doig presenting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for collectors.” says; Alex Branczik, Head of Contemporary Art, London Next […]
Tehran Museum Could Display Modern Masterpieces After 30 Year Hiatus
A billion pound collection of modern masterpieces which has languished in a storeroom bunker under Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art in Iran may finally see the light of day, under changes in the new government’s policy. Paintings by Picasso, Miro, Calder, Bacon, Pollock, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Van Gogh and Monet have languished in a storeroom beneath […]
Damien Hirst Exhibits His Work Alongside Picasso, Bacon and Warhol
Damien Hirst is a Turner Prize winning artist. Despite his critical notoriety (much of it negative) he has managed to become one of the top selling artists in the world, with an estimated fortune of over £300m. He is an artist known for his installation art, paintings and sculpture. His subject matter often depicts images […]
16 November 2013
Astronomical Warhol Koons And Bacon Results Defy Art Market Skeptics
Oh what a crazy week for contemporary and modern art at auction: Despite a lot of hot air in the art press over the last few days, with speculation of whether the art market bubble (or balloon in some cases) was about to burst, the climate has again proven the sceptics to be wrong, with […]
Beyond Bacon and Freud Artist Justin Mortimer Interviewed By Paul Black
Justin Mortimer’s paintings reverberate with a fore-knowledge of Baconian flesh and torpor, and that quintessential Freudian cogency and mass that forever changed the idealistic template of the figure in painting into an expression of a post God mortality. For both twentieth century artist’s a delicious glut of adjectives are to be found, as there are […]