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 ...

“Francis Bacon: Human Presence” at London’s National Portrait Gallery is the institution’s first exhibition of the artist’s portraits. Featuring more than fifty key paintings from across ...

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock ... Come too close and everything dissolves into a powdery splat. Bacon’s is an art of intimacy, ...

A powerful exploration of artistic connection and mutual gaze, Seeing Each Other: Artists Through the Eyes of Artists is a ...

A rare portrait by celebrated painter Francis Bacon sold for £ ... By 1982, Freud and Bacon – two pillars of British contemporary art – were not on speaking terms. Bacon’s tender “Study ...

The Estate of Francis Bacon/DACS Loans are generous, including monumental, eccentric pictures absent from Tate’s 2008 centennial retrospective. Stockholm’s flat pop art “Double Portrait of ...

It’s the pity of it that hits you. 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 ...

A Francis Bacon portrait of fellow painter – and Soho ... Tom Eddison, Senior Director of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s , said: “In this one single portrait we bear witness to a masterpiece ...

Francis Bacon’s 1963 painting ... Painted around a year after the alcohol-related death of the artist’s partner Peter Lacy in Tangier, Morocco, Bacon created the work to commemorate the ...

The robbers also took five paintings created by Francis Bacon, the Irish-born artist known for his distinctive ... a 1989 work titled Study for Portrait of José Capelo. The piece is estimated ...