Francis Bacon's single head study of the artist Lucian Freud painted in1961 from the private collection of the celebrated writer Roald Dahl and the Dahl family is to go under the hammer at Christie's . The canvas measuring fourteen inches by twelve will be...
Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer (on light ground) by Francis Bacon is to go under the hammer in Sotheby's Evening sale of Contemporary Art in London . The painting depicts the man who was the love of Bacon’s life at the moment when they were most...
Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Art London evening auction has realised a total of £124,192,000/ $206,158,720/ €151,017,472 selling 83% by lot and 95% by value and achieving the 2nd highest ever total for a European Auction of Post-War &...
A major portrait by Francis Bacon will be offered at Christie's in their upcoming Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 13 February 2014. The painting depicts George Dyer and was executed in 1966, at the artist’s creative peak. George Dyer was Bacon's...
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...
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...
Francis Bacon's portrait of the artist Lucian Freud may set a new record for the painters work, when it goes under the hammer at Christie's auctioneers, in New York, in November. It is expected to sell in the region of $85m (£53m). Painted in 1969 the three...
Happily married establishment figure and Royal College of Art tutor, versus a self-taught sadomasochistic gambler with a fondness for alcohol and the sleek underbelly of Soho. It is difficult not to see this exhibition as a competition of interests and the...
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...