Francis Bacon: Head VI (1949). Oil on canvas ‘A man with whom I can do business’ Mrs Thatcher had said, famously, of her meetings with the main instrument of the new openness, Soviet premier ...

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.

The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits is like ... worst and everything in between. His small head triptychs in particular capture ...

Sylvester's Interviews with Francis Bacon. The mouth is the centrepiece ... whose radical reimagining of the human head - its features distorted, rearranged, and seen from multiple angles at ...