One of Francis Bacon's iconic “Screaming Pope”series paintings, from the 1950s has emerged on the backs of several paintings used by a Sunday painter. They will be sold by the Surrey auctioneer Ewbank’s who notably sold 3 other fragments of Bacon...
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Bacon and Rodin in dialogue: New Exhibition For February
At the beginning of September 1959, Francis Bacon travelled to Cornwall, seeking to escape the distractions of London, and took out a six-month rental on a studio in St Ives from the artists William Redgrave and Peter Lanyon. One evening at a party in St Ives,...
Francis Bacon And Paula Rego Feature In New Cumbrian Exhibition
Abbot Hall's summer exhibition in Cumbria has mounted an exhibition titled; "Francis Bacon to Paula Rego". It celebrates and explores the work of major British painters of the last fifty years. The featured artists reads like a who's who of the art world and...
Louis le Brocquy Painter Of Bacon And Bono Dies aged 95
One of Ireland's best know artists, Louis le Brocquy, has died in Dublin at age of 95. His work, mostly portraiture dealt with the figure in an uncompromising manner that won praise from contemporaries, like Francis Bacon. Brocquy painted many other well known...
Big Bucks For Francis Bacon And Lucian Freud At Christies
Francis Bacon’s 1963 Portrait of Henrietta Moraes sold for nearly £20 million, while newly discovered Freud drawing doubles pre-sale estimate at a Christie’s sale of post-war and contemporary artThe painting was described in the catalogue as...
Francis Bacon Masterpiece Goes Under The Hammer
Sotheby's has announced that its forthcoming London Summer Contemporary Art Evening Auction will be led by "Crouching Nude", an important canvas by the seminal British Artist Francis Bacon. The painting has never been offered at auction before and should realize at...
Beeple: Lets The Dogs Out At Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Beeple's Robo-Dogs depicting Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos, first seen at Art Basel Miami in December, head to the Neue Nationalgalerie, a Mies van der Rohe-designed building in Berlin. Their debut at the fair went viral immediately and sold out at...
Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Evening Sale Springs To Life
Sotheby's packed auction totalled £131m, setting a record for Leon Kossoff. The rooms were full. Properly full, not London-auction full, which is a different thing entirely. The 54 lots hammered to £106.4m, or £131m with fees, comfortably inside the pre-sale estimate...
Lucian Freud The Curator’s Egg National Portrait Gallery – John K Grande
Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting is the first National Portrait Gallery show since Lucian Freud Portraits in 2012. With 48 sketchbooks donated to the NPG as its starting point, this show is somewhat odd. You don’t know whether to say it is good or it is bad, as...