“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.

George Dyer, Bacon’s lover who died of an overdose, sitting on a lavatory in Paris, here crouches like an ape. A Man Kneeling in Grass, on all fours, his bare buttocks exposed, is watched by a ...

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 ...

Barry Joule, Bacon's neighbour in South Kensington said the artist got a call from 'a tough-sounding East End man ... policemen sitting in their car right outside the building, Francis might ...

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?) ...

according to Bacon, a man who “fucked absolutely anything.” Whatever Francis may have learned from his father’s grooms was enlarged by this postgraduate education. After a couple of months ...

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 ...