The faces in his paintings, which dissolve at every turn, are chilling – as a major show at the National Portrait Gallery demonstrates. Visitors to Francis Bacon: Human Presence are greeted by his ...

Dublin-born artist's €5 million painting, stolen in 2015, recovered in Madrid The painting, worth an estimated €5 million ($5.4 million), was one of five by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...

Francis Bacon. 2 minute read. ... the greatest was the Anglo-Irish painter Francis Bacon, one of the few artists of his time to produce work that aimed to possess ... faces smeared into something ...