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

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The faces in his paintings, which dissolve at every turn, are chilling – as a major show at the ...

Analysis: There may be no obvious traces of Ireland or Irishness in Bacon's work, yet his studio now resides in the heart of Dublin The artist Francis Bacon is one of the most recognised names in ...

The National Portrait Gallery show is also an appreciation of Bacon’s innate understanding of how to make a painting work.

The new National Portrait Gallery exhibition Francis Bacon: Human Presence underlines the painter’s similarity with films like The Substance ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked? For most of the second half of the 20th century, the Irish-born painter’s unstinting bleakness, ravaged flesh and sado-masochistic homoeroticism made him the ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint portraits. At least, not in any conventional sense. Sure, he ...

Francis Bacon’s Nanny is an impressive endpoint to Besserie’s sustained engagement over three novels with the imaginative turbulence of Irish artistic achievement.

Police Recover Stolen Francis Bacon Painting Worth $5 Million The piece was one of five artworks stolen during a robbery in Madrid in 2015 ...

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 ...