The National Portrait Gallery show is also an appreciation of Bacon’s innate understanding of how to make a painting work.

Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure.

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 ...

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Pope Francis marked Ash Wednesday by blessing ashes and placing a call from his hospital room to a Gaza parish as Catholics around the world celebrated the first day of Lent by praying for the ...

In his last, most pathetic years, Mark Twain threw himself behind the crackpot theory that the true author of Shakespeare’s plays may have been Francis Bacon. The penultimate book that Twain ...

A new fractional art company plans on taking a Francis Bacon work public in July, making it the first IPO for a painting.

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 ...

The fusion of violence and pleasure defined the painter’s life and work. By John Banville Is Francis Bacon the most overrated painter of the 20th century? No, surely that dubious accolade must go to ...