Whether during the cold war or the era of Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, the bedrock of science has been international cooperation.

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

Before David Lynch, there was Francis Bacon The painter, like the filmmaker, created images that resonated with a specifically modern sense of horror.

The Estate of Francis Bacon/DACS 2023 With his violent swipes of paint and the pressure of rags pressed onto painted faces, Bacon makes his presence felt throughout the exhibition.

A London Exhibition Delves Deeper into Francis Bacon’s ‘Human Presence’ Ephemera and other materials in the National Portrait Gallery show—letters, filmed interviews, the Rembrandt, photos ...

In Bacon – "Britain's greatest postwar painter" – the NPG has found a "perfect subject". And this is a "stirring, splendid" exhibition.

Besides the many scholars and crackpots who have used historical clues to show that someone else—usually Sir Francis Bacon—must have written Shakespeare's plays, scores have turned to ...

Francis Bacon’s distorted forms, caught in hellish moments, are etched into the brain of those with only a passing interest in the art canon, an eerie familiarity that still doesn’t prepare you for ...

Francis Bacon: Human Presence contains enough variety of works in its climactic sections to account for the stronger and weaker aspects of the later Bacon, while veering thankfully towards the former.

The fusion of violence and pleasure defined the painter’s life and work. By John Banville Is Francis Bacon the most overrated painter of the 20th century? No, surely that dubious accolade must go to ...

An anthology of writings on Francis Bacon compiled by Michael Peppiatt, to be published next month, includes revealing comments on Van Gogh. Bacon (1909-92) was a great admirer, inspired to ...

Mary & George depicts the real-life story of Mary Villiers and her son George, and their social climbing at the early 17th century English royal court.