Indeed, the careful, even tight-arsed handling of the circular forms protruding from the artist’s face contradicts everything ...

This exhibition showcases post-war portraiture and its relationship with photography – the theme is vast, but its ...

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The faces in his paintings, which dissolve at every turn, are chilling – as a major show at the ...

Less than two days before Bacon's Paris retrospective opened in 1971, Dyer took his own life. Francis Outred, Christie's head of post-war and contemporary art, said the painting was "quite simply ...

The poster was for an upcoming retrospective on Francis Bacon and isolated ... be captured by dialogue and narration. Bacon is his favorite artist. This makes sense. Bacon, after all, is a painter ...

With galleries from 18 countries and works ranging from Francis Bacon to emerging European artists, the 2025 London Art Fair ...

Visitors to Francis Bacon: Human Presence are greeted by his studies of papal figures and men in suits. In these works, Bacon encased his figures in the suggestions of boxes, which are known as “space ...

their new documentary on the life and work of Francis Bacon He has been referred to and listed as a British artist for the majority of his life and career and revered as an icon of 20th century ...

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Did you know? Some of Francis Bacon’s most famous artworks are inspired by old masters, such as Head VI that is based on the 'Portrait Of Pope Innocent X' by the Spanish artist Diego Velazquez.

This is the first of Sylvester's interviews with Bacon, which are regarded as some of the best discussions with the artist on his work. They were published as a book, Interviews with Francis Bacon ...