A standalone live sale dedicated to Damien Hirst spaning key series from across Hirst’s career. Followed by the Evening & Day ...

Number 63 Baggot Street, in the heart of the city’s Georgian core, was the childhood home of the painter Francis Bacon. Over four storeys, a basement and a “turnkey” mews at the back ...

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.

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The faces in his paintings, which dissolve at every turn, are chilling – as a major show at the ...

“Francis Bacon ... canvas 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.

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’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 ... would almost inevitably focus on the latter stages of Bacon’s career, when his signature “tortured” style had become a shade mannered and repetitive.

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 ...

The robbers also took five paintings created by Francis Bacon, the Irish-born artist known for his distinctive, disturbing style. Last week, Spanish police announced the recovery of one of the ...

For a complete bibliographic description, see: Gibson, R.W. Francis Bacon, a bibliography, and, his Supplement, no. 81 There are two issues of this edition known to exist, one being on large paper. A ...