Heavyweight paintings by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff drawn from the formidable Lewis Collection will headline Sotheby's Modern and Contemporary evening sale in London this March. It is the first time works from the collection have been formally...
UPDATE: Francis Bacon’s Portrait of a Dwarf (1975) has sold above its £6 million to £9 million estimate, hammering down at £13.1 million with fees, or approximately $17.6 million. The painting, which has not appeared on the market for four decades, was one half of a...
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 – and those who dislike the violence, the distortions and the unconventional swirling brush marks, who...
Francis Bacon: Human Presence is a highly considerate book that explores the artist’s many-sided relationships with portraiture from the 1950s onwards. It shows how he continued to redefine this discipline taking it beyond its capacity into a highly original,...
This month sees the opening of an exhibition of portraits by the artist Francis Bacon at the National Portrait Gallery and the launch of my book Queens of Bohemia and Other Miss-Fits at Hatchards of Piccadilly. The book reveals the scandalous lives of the women who...
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. The painting is one of five portraits of banker José Capelo, a friend of Bacon, who was stolen in Spain's...
Francis Bacon's monumental single portrait of George Dyer, his celebrated muse and lover, marks a significant moment in the annals of Bacon's career. This May, the painting is poised to realise a staggering $50 million at Sotheby's in New York. The "Portrait of George...
A new exhibition, Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews, has been announced by Gagosian London. Opening on 17 November at the galley's Grosvenor Hill location, the show will explore artists that were part of a vibrant Post...
If there is one image that Bacon made his own above any other, it is the mouth contorted in a scream or grimace. It is not Munch's shrill scream of terror. Bacon's mouth is cavernous, the lips curled in a snarl to reveal rows of potentially castrating teeth. Sometimes...