Francis Bacon, a painter known for his obsession with the male figure, painted the last moments of his lover's life as he ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint ...

What some do contest — fiercely — is a trove of papers and artworks that Joule says the artist gave him at that final meeting. Image A photograph of Joule and Francis Bacon, taken in 1986 by ...

After the war, she settled in London and became friends with Francis Bacon. Bacon painted fourteen portraits of Isabel and ...

The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits is like a gut punch.

London’s winter sales of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art embark on a week that is hoped to raise between ...

Recorded in 1965, Julian Jebb interviews Francis Bacon about his contemporaries in the art world, his working practices and his personal philosophies. Show more Recorded in 1965, this pilot for a ...

Stephen Wakelam's play for Drama on 3, Bacon in Moscow, reveals how Francis Bacon became the first major Western artist to have a solo exhibition in the Soviet Union. This is the story of an ...

Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon and Catholicism. He’s the ­working-class hero who as a 23-year-old art student at the University of London’s Goldsmiths ...

Highest hopes rest with a small Francis Bacon, Portrait of Man with Glasses III, and a Magritte, La Reconnaissance Infinie, both at Christie’s, with estimates of between £6 and 9million.