Simone Leigh Quits Hauser & Wirth After 18 Month Stint The artist Simone Leigh has quit the multinational gallery Hauser and Wirth months before representing the United States at the 59th Venice Biennale in May. She will now make the move to Matthew Marks. "I love...
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, and how this impacted upon his treatment of his ultimate subject: the human...
Italian police have seized 500 drawings and collages reputed to be by the Irish born artist Francis Bacon. The stash also included €3m worth of cash and valuables. According to an official police statement, five people have been implicated with criminal conspiracy...
Francis Bacon's late large-format Triptych Inspired by the Greek tragedy Oresteia of Aeschylus, will go under the hammer at Sotheby's. This will be the highlight their Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York on 13 May 2020, when it will be offered with an...
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). The auction was led by Francis Bacon's 'Self-Portrait' from 1975. The sale drew bidders from across...
The new Francis Bacon show at Gagosian Grosvenor Hill is something of a landmark event. It contains a sumptuous array of top-quality works. Only a very few of these come from museum collections, so see them while you can. The show is brutally frank about Bacon’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 and one of the finest examples of the six portrait heads completed by Bacon in 1952....
An important portrait by Francis Bacon of his friend/rival Lucian Freud is to be shown in Tate Britain’s landmark exhibition All Too Human in February 2018. The work was only seen in public shortly after it was completed – firstly in London in 1964 and then in Hamburg...
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, a highlight of London’s Frieze Week auctions. Head with Raised Arm (1955, estimate: £7,000,000...