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 ...

There's more to work than life.

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 ...

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, ...

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

It explores Bacon's connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional values in this art form. My viewing experience began outside the gallery with a brief introduction to Francis Bacon ...

Now, he has "written an even more gripping follow-up, about taking Gilbert & George to Moscow, Beijing and Shanghai". Birch first met the collaborative art duo in 1979 at the Blitz, a nightclub in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you know? Some of Francis Bacon’s most famous artworks are inspired by old masters, such as Head VI that is based on the 'Portrait Of Pope Innocent X' by the Spanish artist Diego Velazquez.