“I have always been very moved by pictures about slaughterhouses and meat,” the painter Francis Bacon said to an interviewer in 1962. He regarded meat with fellow-feeling. “If I go into a butcher’s ...

This episode suggests ruthless careerism, but as the Pulitzer Prize–winning critics Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan write in their new biography, Francis Bacon: Revelations, the reality turned out to be ...

“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 his career, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery has the ...

Francis Bacon – Man and Beast review: Post-Holocaust surrealism that still feels raw and challenging Co-curated by writer Michael Peppiatt, author of one of the more entertaining Bacon memoirs, this ...

WHEN, some years ago, I set out to write about Sir Francis Bacon, the undertaking loomed frighteningly large. Not only had Bacon been written about copiously for more than three hundred years, but I ...