The 6-and-a-half foot Portrait of George Dyer Crouching, 1966, is a dynamic, wrenching depiction of Dyer, his face ... “Francis Bacon: Man and Beast,” Sotheby’s said. More: Art Market ...

In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992 ... a person with matted hair and a filthy face. But the context was perfectly calibrated. Lynch wanted it to be terrifying ...

Francis Bacon's masterpiece to go on Sale at Christie's Footage of paintings to go on Christie's 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale and The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale during the press ...

Christie's is proud to present Francis Bacon's Portrait of ... freedom and intensity that characterised Bacon's works of the early 1960s, the painting's bold brushstrokes, flashes of raw canvas ...