Francis Bacon’s Portrait of George Dyer Crouching, 1966, is being sold in May at a contemporary art evening sale at Sotheby’s in New York. It’s estimated to sell for between $30 million and ...

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 ...

Spanish police have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Francis Bacon stolen in 2015. The painting, titled "Study for Portrait of José Capelo," is valued at $5.4 million.

Bacon’s paintings are not easily understood, but they never fail to unsettle. Stripped of clothes and respectability, the gaping mouths and butchered limbs of his figures shock the viewer into ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new initial public offering (IPO) is dropping this summer, but it’s not for a tech company or retailer. A 1963 three-panel oil painting by Francis Bacon is set to become the first artwork ever ...