Spanish police said on Thursday they had recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, worth an estimated €5 million ($5.42 million), and one of five ...

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 ...

When “Figure in a Landscape” (1946) and “Study After Velasquez’ Portrait of Pope Innocent X” (1953) were included in a 1955 Museum of Modern Art exhibition of European artists, the ...

A Francis Bacon triptych sold for over $84 million during a virtual auction at Sotheby’s, on what was an encouraging – and highly unusual – evening for the coronavirus-hit art market.

Francis Bacon (1909–1992) was a leading figure in 20th-century British art: celebrated, scandalous, and profoundly influential. In 1971, he was at a turning point in his career as he prepared ...

There is no exit from Francis Bacon’s 1946 masterpiece “Painting,” a response to the horrors of WWII Francis Bacon (b. 1909). Painting, 1946. On view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Bacon evolved from a painter of violence, pathology, and extreme upset-ment, his twisted soul splattered in oil, pastel, dust, and aerosol on canvas -- to become a deft, cool stylist.

The painter Francis Bacon, descendent of the 16th century philosopher, once said, “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery,” and he certainly succeeded in that mission ...

Seven people suspected of involvement in stealing five paintings by the Irish-born painter Francis Bacon worth more than $27.8 million have been arrested, Spanish police said Saturday. The owner of… ...