Fans of Francis Bacon, rejoice: a new publication by the French poet and author Yves Peyré, Francis Bacon Or the Measure of Excess, out now from ACC Art Books, offers a touching and intimate tribute ...

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 ...

A new comprehensive monograph detailing Francis Bacon’s artistic journey is now up for grabs. Titled Francis Bacon or the Measure of Excess, the expansive book is penned by Bacon’s close friend Yves ...

Francis Bacon, “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” (1969) (screenshot via christies.com) As Christie’s preps to sell off Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” for a possible record price of $100 ...

The Pulitzer Prize winners took on a momentous task in penning a new biography. Did they live up to the task of narrating the disturbing life of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century? The ...

Francis Bacon, the Irish-born artist known for figurative and occasionally unsettling portraits, painted subjects ranging from disfigured friends to screaming popes. One of his greatest muses, however ...

Barry Joule, Francis Bacon’s friend and former handyman, has cancelled plans to donate a collection of work by the artist to Tate out of frustration with the museum’s failure to exhibit an earlier ...

Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a 1969 triptych painting by artist Francis Bacon, was sold for a record $142.4 million Tuesday night at Christie's in Manhattan. It's now "the most expensive artwork ...

A Francis Bacon triptych sold for over $84 million during a virtual auction at Sotheby’s, on what was an encouraging – and highly unusual – evening for the coronavirus-hit art market. With an ...

Sophie Pretorius, an archivist employed by the Estate of Francis Bacon, points in Francis Bacon: Shadows that many of the Bacon-attributed artworks in Barry Joule’s archive were drawn in charcoal.