LACMA recently installed a $142 million triptych by Francis Bacon in its new David Geffen Galleries. The gift from Elaine ...

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 outrage ...

Francis Bacon’s 1969 triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud has finally taken up a very public perch at the Los Angeles ...

In this 1985 documentary on the artist, made while he was still very much alive, Francis Bacon talks through one of his most iconic works and explains how he makes paintings. The documentary features ...

TIME art critic Richard Lacayo reviews the magnificent exhibit celebrating the artist’s upcoming centenary Bacon's studio was a famous mess, a sedimentary sludge pile of books, rags, half-finished ...

Joe Lewis once turbocharged his multi-billion-dollar fortune taking big swings in the currency markets. Now, the British investor and his family are cashing in on lucrative bets made in another sector ...

Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné contains over 900 illustrations across five, cloth-bound hardcover volumes. The three 400-page volumes that make up the study of Bacon's entire oeuvre are bookended ...

The film lit the blue touch paper by looking at Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, which, when exhibited in London in 1945, did little to enhance any sense of euphoria at ...

ARTEX Global MarketsWuhrstrasse 6, 9490, VaduzLIECHTENSTEIN ARTEX Market Update: Francis Bacon’s Self-Portrait (1972) doubles its low estimate, reaching £16,035,000 at Sotheby’s London. Vaduz / Zurich ...

Francis Bacon: The logic of sensation -- The round area, the ring -- Note on figuration in past painting -- Athleticism -- Body, meat, and spirit: Becoming-animal -- Recapitulative note: Bacon's ...