Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" is ... "All profoundly original art looks ugly at first." Artists responded to the turbulence of the 20 th century by breaking conventions so ...

A powerful exploration of artistic connection and mutual gaze, Seeing Each Other: Artists Through the Eyes of Artists is a ...

At this point in Bacon's career, his works became more personal and he was consumed with notions of death following the tragic suicide of his lover, George Dyer in 1971. A huge influence to the artist ...

Francis Bacon's 1969 painting Three Studies of Lucian ... He had a knack for adapting all the wrong elements from all the right artists. He zeroed in on those moments when Van Gogh and Picasso ...

Francis Bacon was an Irish artist and one of the most unique ... Bacon became part of the local art scene in the British capital, which included his friends Lucian Freud, Isabel Lambert, and John ...

My first visit to 7 Reece Mews in South Kensington, Francis ... Bacon, good food – its appearance, the images it conjured and, importantly, its colour – played a strong part in both life and art.

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked? For most of the second ... who hits us on levels other artists don’t reach. Bacon on the face of it is a no-brainer for the National Portrait Gallery.

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental ... Come too close and everything dissolves into a powdery splat. Bacon’s is an art of intimacy, predominantly ...

In this he was a lot like the painter Francis ... was released. Bacon was similar. He didn’t paint many images like this one, a 1953 painting at the National Gallery of Art called “Study ...

Spanish police said on Thursday they had recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British figurative artist Francis ... Bacon, who died in Madrid in 1992, was one of the most acclaimed artists ...