Francis Bacon, a painter known for his obsession with the male figure, painted the last moments of his lover's life as he ...

Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure. The Great Read Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of ...

Some images recur. They’re spectral. They come out of the darkness — out of somewhere far away and half-forgotten — and there they are. Again and again. Since David Lynch’s death, everyone ...

MIFAC 2025 , which will be held from March 27 to 30 in Angoulême , will showcase around thirty new films on contemporary artists, with screenings, an Art Book Fair and meetings between artists, ...

After the war, she settled in London and became friends with Francis Bacon. Bacon painted fourteen portraits of Isabel and ...

Stephen Wakelam's play for Drama on 3, Bacon in Moscow, reveals how Francis Bacon became the first major Western artist to have a solo exhibition in the Soviet Union. This is the story of an ...

This month, the Francis Bacon: Human Presence exhibit opened at the National Portrait Gallery. As part of the gallery's youth forum, I was able to visit for free; tickets are usually £23, but ...

London’s winter sales of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art embark on a week that is hoped to raise between ...

The UK journalist Nick Trend explores how passion, love and sex has fuelled artists such as Francis Bacon, Sandro Botticelli, Caravaggio and Dora Carrington, analysing how lovers and muses have ...

Some time ago we asked some of the Antiques Roadshow experts to reveal what antique or work of art they would most like to see at an Antiques Roadshow. Ceramics specialist Steven Moore said he ...