This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...

Francis Bacon, “Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres” (1983), oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm; Collection Berardo, Lisbon; © The Estate of Francis Bacon/All rights ...

Francis Bacon, "Portrait of George Dyer Crouching" (1966), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (all images courtesy Sotheby's) Now, Bacon’s first full-scale portrait of Dyer is headed to auction at ...

Some theories suggest that poet and playwright William Shakespeare was not the real author of his famous works, including ...

Francis Bacon’s work has always been instantly recognizable. “Nightmarish horror” was how art critic David Sylvester described it in 1954, citing the general critical response to his paintings. Raw, ...

Francis Bacon spent the first 16 years of his life growing up on a stud farm in Ireland surrounded by horses and dogs. For Bacon, an asthmatic, danger lurked in animal fur, and forever after the ...

Barry Joule, Francis Bacon’s friend and former handyman, has cancelled plans to donate a collection of work by the artist to Tate out of frustration with the museum’s failure to exhibit an earlier ...

LONDON, March 15 – A dark Francis Bacon painting of a screaming pope, said to be the earliest in his series of papal depictions, went on display in London on Tuesday, the first time the artwork has ...

Mmm…bacon. There's the actor. There's the food. There's the creepy painter. And then there's Francis Bacon, the English philosopher and statesman who boldly ...

Francis Bacon's 1969 painting Three Studies of Lucian Freud was bought at Christie's last night for $142.4 million, setting a record for the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. (It beat ...