Irish artist Francis Bacon had always been intrigued by the male body ... These are graphic, jarring postmortem snapshots taken right after his suicide. Take a look at The Black Triptychs of 1973, for ...

Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory and Head of the School of the Arts, University of Hull In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock.

The poster was for an upcoming retrospective on Francis Bacon and isolated ... early spark. Part of Bacon’s “Black Triptychs” series, it follows the death of Bacon’s model and lover ...

“Francis Bacon ... with a few sweeps of what look like pencil lines, the black outline of a box and the beginnings of a side view of Bacon’s head near the middle. Bacon threw out or painted ...

Francis Bacon, 1967 by J.S. Lewinski ... The painter, then aged 59, stares out like an inquisitive bird in a clip from Peter Gidal’s black and white film Heads (1969). Here is an artist seemingly ...

A packed survey at the National Portrait Gallery in London reveals an artist who was the architect of his own myth Francis Bacon’s beady eyes – the ... inquisitive bird in a clip from Peter Gidal’s ...

Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery has the perfect subject in its stirring, splendid new show Francis Bacon: Human Presence.

Francis Bacon’s distorted forms, caught in hellish moments, are etched into the brain of those with only a passing interest in the art canon, an eerie familiarity that still doesn’t prepare you for ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked ... while the pontiff’s face is broken into a mass of black calligraphic marks definitely gave me that quintessential Bacon spinal tingle.

Freud complained that Bacon ... 40 small triptychs, the format allowing him to present different aspects, both physical and psychological. ‘Self-Portrait’, 1973, 1973 by Francis Bacon ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits ... as well as portraits of the artist himself. A black-and-white photograph by Neil Libbert documents the artist ...