“It just said, ‘We are sitting in a café in Paris discussing ... One of his parents’ most illustrious guests was the painter Francis Bacon (1909-92). “He would come to dinner a couple ...

The Bacon Portrait of Lucian Freud (1952), in the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, bears no resemblance to Freud and little to Kafka. A coltish young man enters through what could be a revolving ...

The red lips and tongue are the only touch of colour in this image of a figure sitting in a bare room ... And this, as I've described it in the past, is designer angst. Francis Bacon Man and Beast is ...