Included in the controversy is Vettriano's signature work, The Singing Butler ... Some artists would probably be ashamed to admit it. Francis Bacon didn't want people to know he'd used photos. "They ...

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.

“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.

Maylis Besserie has chosen the character of the nanny to tell the story of Francis Bacon. Lightfoot accompanied Bacon throughout his childhood and early career, first as nanny, then as helpmate ...

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 ...

Fabyan believed Bacon had placed secret messages inside the original 1623 edition of the plays as a signature of his authorship ... She did it all by hand with pencil and paper, before the era ...

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 ...

Francis Bacon, “Portrait of George Dyer ... The figure has three overlaid faces, one of Bacon’s signature elements, giving the effect of frenetic, unearthly movement and animalistic frenzy.

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban ( 22 January 1561 – 9 April ... Portrait with handwritten text and signature Original edition from my own archives Source : Picture Magazine Vol.1 1893 ...