“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 ...

A new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy highlights Francis ... exhibition of Bacon’s work that is opening at the Royal Academy of Arts in London on Saturday. Called “Man and Beast ...

Curated by Michael Peppiatt, one of Bacon’s close friends and biographers, “Francis Bacon: Man and Beast” is the ... as another trapped animal, sitting in front of a dark void.

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits ... but a nightmarish vision of an indistinct screaming man. (Is he being zapped by an electric chair?) ...

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 ...

It’s just two years on from The Royal Academy of Art’s “Francis Bacon: Man and Beast” blockbuster show. There were at least four exhibitions in the city last year featuring Bacon paintings ...

Such a man is Britain’s Francis Bacon, but it is unlikely that his portraits will ever hang in any corporation board room. His paintings attack conventional concepts of beauty, plow the flesh ...

Christie's is proud to present Francis Bacon's Portrait of Man with Glasses III (1963; estimate: £6,000,000-9,000,000) as a major highlight of its 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 ...