A rare portrait by celebrated painter Francis Bacon sold for £43.4 million ($52.8 million) at Sotheby’s London on Wednesday, the first time the artwork has been auctioned in its almost six ...

The piece is a reworking of Bacon’s 1962 canvas Study from Innocent X.. (The artist’s groundbreaking and emotionally charged pope paintings were inspired by the Diego Velázquez’s 1650 ...

A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon will be publicly listed this summer, giving investors the ability to buy and sell shares in an artwork on a stock exchange for the first time.

English painter Francis Bacon, January 1984. Photo: Ulf Andersen/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. Eileen Kinsella January 11, 2021 Share Share This Article.

The received wisdom about artist Francis Bacon’s life goes: He painted like a maniac in his chaotic studio every day, drank like a maniac in London’s seedy Soho neighborhood every night. There ...

Edited by critic/curator Michael Peppiatt, with a forward by novelist Colm Toibin, "Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words" (Thames and Hudson USA) arrives at a propitious moment. Bacon's paintings ...

But while Bacon’s pictures—such as “Three Figures and a Portrait” (1975) and “Self-Portrait” (1977) in this exhibition—may set your teeth on edge, they manage to manifest a strange ...

In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992, the year that Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” was released. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...

Oct. 28, 1909 to April 28, 1992 Francis Bacon, the Irish-born painter whose abstract images of psychological and physical brutality made him one of the most exalted, and most disliked artists of ...

John Edwards, 53, who was the artist Francis Bacon's closest friend for 18 years and heir to his paintings and property, died Tuesday in Bangkok of lung cancer.