Francis Bacon: Chopped Down Portrait Of A Dwarf Heads to Sotheby’s
Francis Bacon’s 1975 canvas Portrait of a Dwarf will lead Sotheby’s London evening sale on 16 October, carrying an estimate… Read More
15 September 2025
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Francis Bacon – Human Presence – National Portrait Gallery – Sue Hubbard
Francis Bacon is something of a Marmite painter. There are those who love him – his searing honesty and the existential search to extract the essence of a subject…
16 October 2024
Francis Bacon: Human Presence Edited By Rosie Broadley
Francis Bacon: Human Presence is a profoundly considerate book that explores the artist’s many-sided relationship with the genre from the 1950s onwards.
8 October 2024
Marianne Faithfull: Francis Bacon’s Wild Child – Darren Coffield
When interviewed for my book, the pop icon Marianne Faithfull said she first crossed paths with Bacon after she’d just split up from Mick Jagger…
7 October 2024
Stolen £5m Francis Bacon Painting Recovered by Spanish Police
Spanish Police have recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon, valued at €5m (£4.2m), which was stolen from a Madrid home in 2015.
26 May 2024
Francis Bacon: Portrait of Lover And Muse George Dyer Auctioned
Francis Bacon’s monumental single portrait of George Dyer, his celebrated muse and lover, marks a significant moment in the annals… Read More
24 March 2024
Art Enthusiasts Embrace Public Domain Freedom Day 2024
Art entering the Public Domain is always a highly anticipated annual event. Artists, creators, and consumers mark a wealth of creative treasures that become available…
4 January 2024
Lucian Freud And His Circle Surveyed In Two London Exhibitions
A noted John Deakin photograph of Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in Soho in 1963
1 December 2022
Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews
Gagosian presents Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews.
Tuesday–Saturday 10–6
Francis Bacon: Birth Copulation And Death – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
If there is one image that Bacon made his own above any other, it is the mouth contorted in a scream or grimace.
27 January 2022
Francis Bacon: Selected Graphics
An exhibition of prints by Francis Bacon (1909-1992).
Mon – Fri 10:00-5:30 Sat - 10:00-4:00
Simone Leigh Quits Hauser & Wirth – Bacon Owl Pope Hits The Auction Block – Art Basel Website Cyber Attack
Simone Leigh Quits Hauser & Wirth – Bacon Owl Pope Hits Auction Block – Art Basel Website Cyber Attack
2 November 2021
Francis Bacon: RA Show Explores His Fascination With Animals
The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, the first exhibition to chart the development of the artist’s work through the lens of his fascination with animals
13 October 2021
Francis Bacon Forgery Ring Italian Police Make Arrests
Italian police have seized 500 drawings and collages reputed to be by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon.
12 September 2021
Francis Bacon: Man and Beast
This powerful exhibition will focus on Francis Bacon’s unerring fascination with animals: how it both shaped his approach to the human body and distorted it; how, caught at the most extreme moments of existence, his figures are barely recognisable as either human or beast.
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Francis Bacon – The Power Of The Illicit – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new Francis Bacon show at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill is something of a landmark event. It contains a sumptuous array… Read More
10 June 2019
Francis Bacon: Couplings
An exhibition of Francis Bacon’s double-figure paintings.
Tuesday–Saturday 10–6
Francis Bacon Screaming Pope Portrait to Be Auctioned At Sotheby’s
Francis Bacon’s $20-30m ‘Screaming Pope’ Study for a Head is to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s, in May. It is one of the most iconic works by the artist remaining in private hands
1 April 2019
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life
All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships and surroundings in the most intimate of ways including Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and Paula Rego.
Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00
Rare Portrait of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon Exhibited At Tate
An important portrait by Francis Bacon of his friend/rival Lucian Freud is to be shown in Tate Britain’s landmark exhibition
13 November 2017
Francis Bacon Pope Portrait Resurfaces After 50 Years At Christie’s London
A portrait by the British artist Francis Bacon which has not been seen in public for over 55 years is to be sold at Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction
6 September 2017
Stolen Francis Bacon Paintings Worth £30m Found In Spain
Police in Spain have announced that they have recovered three of the five paintings by the British artist Francis Bacon stolen from a Madrid apartment in 2015.
21 July 2017
Controversial Francis Bacon Crucifixion Drawings Go On Display In London Church
Last year a Gallery in Mayfair exhibited a selection of drawings and collages from the Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino collection of works by Francis Bacon. It created quite a stir in the press, as the collection remains unauthenticated by the Bacon estate and rejected as fakes by the author of the new catalogue raisonné.
6 March 2017
Crucifixions: Francis Bacon St Stephen Walbrook
Crucifixion drawings by Francis Bacon from “The Francis Bacon Collection of drawings given to Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino”. Between 1977 and 1992
10.00am – 4.00pm
The Best Exhibitions Of 2016 – Chosen By Paul Black
Paul Black chooses his best exhibitions of 2016 and delves deeper than the blockbusters and often further afield from London.
20 December 2016
Quiz – Three Little Known Facts About Francis Bacon
Test your knowledge of Francis Bacon
22 November 2016
Francis Bacon Guggenheim Bilbao Exhibition Reveals Influences Of The Great Masters
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is currently featuring a retrospective of the 20th century British/Irish artist Francis Bacon. Considered one of… Read More
3 October 2016
Notorious Colony Room Featured In New Pallant House Gallery Exhibition
The Colony Room: Masterpieces from Pallant House Gallery, is a major new exhibition, chronicling the life and times of the legendary… Read More
19 September 2016
Is Old Fanny Bacon Turning In Her Grave? By Edward Lucie-Smith
The person who rode herd on Frances Bacon during the time that he was represented by the Marlborough Gallery – insofar, that… Read More
3 September 2016
Francis Bacon’s Controversial Yet Moving Late Drawings Exhibited In Trieste
I was recently in Trieste, for a small exhibition of drawings attributed to Francis Bacon. This can hardly be considered a… Read More
22 July 2016
Maria Lassnig: Baconian Inevitability Lingers At Tate Liverpool
Artlyst has travelled to Tate Liverpool which is currently presenting the first UK retrospective of late Austrian artist Maria Lassnig… Read More
24 June 2016
Francis Bacon: Striking New Exhibition Unveiled At Tate Liverpool
Invisible rooms is a captivating, major new exhibition of works by the artist Francis Bacon. It displays more than thirty paintings alongside… Read More
23 May 2016