“Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards,” 1980, by Francis Bacon. (The Estate of Francis Bacon, 80-01. All rights reserved. Private collection, USA.) Review ...

The poster was for an upcoming retrospective on Francis Bacon and isolated ... early spark. Part of Bacon’s “Black Triptychs” series, it follows the death of Bacon’s model and lover ...

A new comprehensive monograph detailing Francis Bacon’s artistic journey is now ... his early design work in the 1920s to his unsettling triptychs in the 1980s. A total of 160 images including ...

The received wisdom about artist Francis ... art in Bacon’s hands, of course, wasn’t a polite affair. His reinvention of the portrait and his novel uses for large-scale triptychs were ...

© Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2024 The National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) first Francis Bacon exhibition is an overdue ...

This episode suggests ruthless careerism, but as the Pulitzer Prize–winning critics Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan write in their new biography, Francis ... black background, remains one of Bacon ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked ... while the pontiff’s face is broken into a mass of black calligraphic marks definitely gave me that quintessential Bacon spinal tingle.

WHEN, some years ago, I set out to write about Sir Francis ... black steeple hat squarely on his head. (Nothing is less becoming than those steeple hats.) This is the best-known portrait of Bacon ...