Indeed, the careful, even tight-arsed handling of the circular forms protruding from the artist’s face contradicts everything we understand about the “wildness” of Francis Bacon. In Study ...

Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" is on loan to the Portland Art Museum through March 30. (AP) The faces are ferocious, distorted, hideous. The bodies slouch insolently. The rooms ...

In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon ... Two years after “Study of a Dog,” the artist Max Clarac-Sérou said that Bacon’s work reminded him of a famous engraving by Albrecht ...

if uneven artist. In a homage that Bacon might have enjoyed, his squalid longtime studio in London was dismantled, documented, and reassembled at the High Lane Gallery in Dublin, Bacon's birthplace, ...

Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a 1969 triptych painting by artist Francis Bacon, was sold for a record $142.4 million Tuesday night at Christie's in Manhattan. It's now "the most expensive artwork ...

Bacon (1909-92) was a great admirer, inspired to produce a series of bold paintings capturing the Dutch artist striding off to work in the Provençal countryside. In Francis Bacon: A Self-portrait ...

Art critic Blake Gopnik weighs in on the $55 million initial public offering of Francis Bacon's triptych artwork: "Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer." INSKEEP: Sound of a stock exchange ...