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 ...

Barry Joule, Francis Bacon’s friend and former handyman, has cancelled plans to donate a collection of work by the artist to Tate out of frustration with the museum’s failure to exhibit an earlier ...

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, the Irish-born artist known for figurative and occasionally unsettling portraits, painted subjects ranging from disfigured friends to screaming popes. One of his greatest muses, however ...

LONDON, March 15 – A dark Francis Bacon painting of a screaming pope, said to be the earliest in his series of papal depictions, went on display in London on Tuesday, the first time the artwork has ...

(AP) A 1969 painting by Francis Bacon is poised to topple the $86 million auction record for the British artist. “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” is being offered Tuesday at Christie’s postwar and ...

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 ...

Please be advised that due to recent global shipping events, there may be fulfillment delays during the post-sale process. Study of a Human Body after Ingres is a lithograph by Francis Bacon after his ...

The painter, like the filmmaker, created images that resonated with a specifically modern sense of horror. Some images recur. They’re spectral. They come out of the darkness — out of somewhere far ...

In August of 1998, a team of curators, conservators, and archaeologists arrived at 7 Reece Mews, a small flat in London’s South Kensington neighborhood, to start work on the month-long task of ...