PARIS — There is something odd about the Francis Bacon exhibition at the Centre ... can hear excerpts read aloud in both French and English. Printed books aren’t just passe, they have been ...

While Francis Bacon was a devout atheist and an outspoken ... and his experiences living as a prosperous member of the English Protestant minority in Ireland. “Bacon was brought up during ...

It was painted by Francis Bacon in 1964 based on a photograph taken by John Deakin of Lucien Freud. Bacon (1909-1992) was born in Dublin to English parents and moved to London in 1926. Although he ...

There's the food. There's the creepy painter. And then there's Francis Bacon, the English philosopher and statesman who boldly proclaimed, "I have taken all knowledge to be my province." ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint portraits. At least, not in any conventional sense. Sure ...

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“Francis Bacon: Human Presence” at London’s National Portrait Gallery is the institution’s first exhibition of the artist’s portraits. Featuring more than fifty key paintings from across ...

Spanish police have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Francis Bacon stolen in 2015. The painting, titled "Study for Portrait of José Capelo," is valued at $5.4 million. It was recovered ...

Spanish police said on Thursday they had recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, worth an estimated €5 million ($5.42 million), and one of five ...