Francis Bacon, “Self-Portrait” (1978), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (Private Collection, © The Estate of Francis Bacon, all rights reserved / DACS, London / ARS ...

This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...

The portrait depicts banker José Capelo, a man Bacon was 'infatuated' with. A portrait of the Spanish banker José Capelo by the aritst Francis Bacon has been recovered by the Policía Nacional. Photo ...

LONDON, March 15 – A dark Francis Bacon painting of a screaming pope, said to be the earliest in his series of papal depictions, went on display in London on Tuesday, the first time the artwork has ...

The painter Francis Bacon, descendent of the 16th century philosopher, once said, “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery,” and he certainly succeeded in that mission in the course of ...

Francis Bacon, “Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres” (1983), oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm; Collection Berardo, Lisbon; © The Estate of Francis Bacon/All rights ...

When “Figure in a Landscape” (1946) and “Study After Velasquez’ Portrait of Pope Innocent X” (1953) were included in a 1955 Museum of Modern Art exhibition of European artists, the British painter ...

Spanish police have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Francis Bacon stolen in 2015. The painting, titled "Study for Portrait of José Capelo," is valued at $5.4 million. It was recovered ...

The first single-panel portrait that Francis Bacon painted of his muse and lover George Dyer will be offered in May at Sotheby’s in New York for a price the auction house estimates could reach US$50 ...

Francis Bacon spent the first 16 years of his life growing up on a stud farm in Ireland surrounded by horses and dogs. For Bacon, an asthmatic, danger lurked in animal fur, and forever after the ...

After Christie’s and Sotheby’s launched the marquee auction season in New York, Phillips staged its 20th century and contemporary art auction at its newly opened Park Avenue headquarters on Wednesday ...

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 stolen from ...