The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.

Rouy says that he isn’t a party animal, ... with anguished expressions—or faces so distorted that their expressions cannot be read—have drawn comparisons to Francis Bacon’s paintings, ...

In a 1599 woodcut by Italian artist Ferrante Imperato, Cosimo’s room of curiosities appears overstuffed with preserved animals adorning every square foot of the mansard-roofed abode, including a ...

Ralph Steadman, illustrator of the corrupt, debauched and morbidly fascinating, is the subject of an enlivening survey at American University Museum.

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...

Francis Bacon: Human Presence at the National Portrait Gallery review — a brilliant transgressive party A stirring show of savage, visceral portraits confirms the artist as Britain’s greatest ...

Henrietta Moraes, Francis Bacon, 1966 Francis Bacon The influence goes both ways. Directors looking to create a particularly visceral kind of horror have long looked to Bacon’s paintings.

Listen: Francis Bacon's Nanny - Maylis Besserie talks to RTÉ Arena. To come back to the story about the boots, I was furious, you see, I was forced to borrow boots from the stables until the ...

Francis Bacon’s Portrait of George Dyer Crouching, making its auction debut in Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening auction, is the first in a series of ten single-panel paintings Bacon painted of ...

Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan is published to coincide with a major new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art. (The exhibition was due to open at the end of January, but ...