Francis Bacon’s 1963 painting Landscape near Malabata, Tangier will lead Christie’s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London on March 7. It’s the first time the work has resurfaced on the market in ...

The five essays in Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology call us to grapple with an artist whose life and work were anything but simple. Comprised of five essays, Bacon and the Mind: ...

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 ...

A onetime friend of Francis Bacon who donated an archive of materials from the artist’s studio to Tate has threatened to withdraw the gift because, he claims, the gallery has failed to prominently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Francis Bacon's Head of Boy, 1960 There's a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon's portraits. The 20th-century ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

TIME art critic Richard Lacayo reviews the magnificent exhibit celebrating the artist’s upcoming centenary Bacon was born in Ireland to English parents in 1909, but by the late 1920s he was living ...