A rare portrait by celebrated painter Francis Bacon will go on auction this month at Sotheby's London for the first time in the artwork's history."Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud," painted in ...

So, a show of Bacon’s portraits is, in a sense, perverse – which is plain from the off in Francis Bacon: Human Presence. Study for a Portrait (1949) isn’t a study for a portrait at all ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked ... some of the second-hand images that obsessed Bacon for decades. In Study for a Portrait (1952), the gaping mouth and shattered glasses of a woman shot ...