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 was a celebrated writer whose essays covered everything from love to death, with today's chosen quote of the day focusing on beauty.

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 ...

Art collectors will have the chance to snag not one, but two exceptional pope paintings by Francis Bacon at the Post-War & Contemporary Art auction at Christie’s next month during Frieze Art Fair in ...

Francis Bacon, “Self-Portrait” (1978), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (Private Collection, © The Estate of Francis Bacon, all rights reserved / DACS, London / ARS ...

The received wisdom about artist Francis Bacon’s life goes: He painted like a maniac in his chaotic studio every day, drank like a maniac in London’s seedy Soho neighborhood every night. There’s an ...

Sophie Pretorius, an archivist employed by the Estate of Francis Bacon, points in Francis Bacon: Shadows that many of the Bacon-attributed artworks in Barry Joule’s archive were drawn in charcoal.

“Francis Bacon: Human Presence” at London’s National Portrait Gallery is the institution’s first exhibition of the artist’s portraits. Featuring more than fifty key paintings from across his career, ...

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 ...

Works by Francis Bacon, Piet Mondrian and Joan Miró are among almost 200 pieces set to go under the hammer from the private ...

“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 ...