Francis Bacon – Human Presence review: the outrage king of British art at his terrifying best, and worst - 4/5 Blockbuster show at the National Portrait Gallery overcomes Bacon’s late career ...

When this painting was still on its easel, the director of London’s National Gallery of Art, Kenneth Clark, visited the studio of the man who made it, Francis Bacon. Bacon was 36. World War II ...

In 2013, Francis Bacon’s painting Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for $142 million, ... As with the best evocative art, many of Bacon’s paintings inspire discomfiting questions.

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 ...

When it comes to Francis Bacon, his searing paintings skyrocket into the stratosphere. After all, his 1969 Three Studies of Lucien Freud soared to a staggering $142,404,992 at Christie’s three years ...

A new initial public offering (IPO) is dropping this summer, but it’s not for a tech company or retailer. A 1963 three-panel oil painting by Francis Bacon is set to become the first artwork ever ...

A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon will be publicly listed this summer, giving investors the ability to buy and sell shares in an artwork on a stock exchange for the first time.

Francis Bacon: Human Presence contains enough variety of works in its climactic sections to account for the stronger and weaker aspects of the later Bacon, while veering thankfully towards the former.