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

The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits is like a gut punch. Triptych May-June 1973 is atypical of the artist’s work in that it ...

What some do contest — fiercely — is a trove of papers and artworks that Joule says the artist gave him at that final meeting. Image A photograph of Joule and Francis Bacon, taken in 1986 by ...

In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon ... Two years after “Study of a Dog,” the artist Max Clarac-Sérou said that Bacon’s work reminded him of a famous engraving by Albrecht ...

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 ...

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

Alongside the artist’s self-portraits, sitters in this show of works from the 1950s onwards include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and Bacon's lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer, among many more.

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 ...

This is the first of Sylvester's interviews with Bacon, which are regarded as some of the best discussions with the artist on his work. They were published as a book, Interviews with Francis Bacon ...

Did you know? Some of Francis Bacon’s most famous artworks are inspired by old masters, such as Head VI that is based on the 'Portrait Of Pope Innocent X' by the Spanish artist Diego Velazquez.