Francis Bacon – Human Presence review: the outrage king of British art at his terrifying best, and worst - 4/5 Blockbuster show at the National Portrait Gallery overcomes Bacon’s late career ...

Francis Bacon’s work has always been instantly recognizable. “Nightmarish horror” was how art critic David Sylvester described it in 1954, citing the general critical response to his ...

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.. With ...

Bacon, who went from a nobody-painter of dark figures howling in agony to "the greatest British artist of the 20 th century," bore down on the dark side. He hits us like a hammer. Francis Bacon ...

Such flourishes, which, in true Bacon style, speak “directly on the nervous system,” may well have pleased the artist. “I lived through the revolutionary Irish movement, Sinn Fein, and the ...

The received wisdom about artist Francis Bacon’s life goes: He painted like a maniac in his chaotic studio every day, drank like a maniac in London’s seedy Soho neighborhood every night. There ...

LONDON, June 30 -- A rare set of three works by painter Francis Bacon was sold for $34.5 million on Monday by Christie's auction house. "Three Studies for a Self-Portrait" was painted in Paris in ...

Francis Bacon’s work has always been instantly recognizable. “Nightmarish horror” was how art critic David Sylvester described it in 1954, citing the general critical response to his paintings.