In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The faces in his paintings, which dissolve at every turn, are chilling – as a major show at the ...

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 ...

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 BaconIt’s an acknowledged paradox of art history that World War II had a muted impact on the art that followed. Maybe the devastation was too great for mere art to absorb. Only a few ...