There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint ...

The first single-panel portrait that Francis Bacon painted of his muse ... Mohamed Melehi Paintings Lead Sotheby’s African Art Auction “Bacon was a furniture designer before he became a ...

MIFAC 2025 , which will be held from March 27 to 30 in Angoulême , will showcase around thirty new films on contemporary artists, with screenings, an Art Book Fair and meetings between artists, ...

What some do contest — fiercely — is a trove of papers and artworks that Joule says the artist gave him at that final meeting. Image A photograph of Joule and Francis Bacon, taken in 1986 by ...

After the war, she settled in London and became friends with Francis Bacon. Bacon painted fourteen portraits of Isabel and ...

Stephen Wakelam's play for Drama on 3, Bacon in Moscow, reveals how Francis Bacon became the first major Western artist to have a solo exhibition in the Soviet Union. This is the story of an ...

What Art Can Tell Us About Love, Nick Trend, Laurence King Publishing, 208pp, £18.99 (hb) The UK journalist Nick Trend ...

London’s winter sales of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art embark on a week that is hoped to raise between ...

Francis Bacon, Portrait of Man with Glasses III ... “The painting embodies all of the complex brilliance of the artist who once declared his passion for the mouth and his desire to paint ...

how it has influenced her music In an exclusive extract from his monumental new book *Francis Bacon, or The Measure of Excess* for ACC Art Books, the French author Yves Peyré recalls long afternoons ...

Recorded in 1965, Julian Jebb interviews Francis Bacon about his contemporaries in the art world, his working practices and his personal philosophies. Show more Recorded in 1965, this pilot for a ...