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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

how it has influenced her music In an exclusive extract from his monumental new book *Francis Bacon, or The Measure of Excess* for ACC Art Books, the French author Yves Peyré recalls long afternoons ...

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.