A rare portrait by celebrated painter Francis Bacon sold for £43.4 million ($52.8 million) at Sotheby’s London on Wednesday, the first time the artwork has been auctioned in its almost six ...

An investigation by Martin Harrison into the painter Francis Bacon's use of photography to inspire and influence his work. Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film stills, and ...

Francis Bacon’s 1964 portrait of fellow British artist Lucian Freud sold for £43.4 million (US$52.8 million) at its debut auction Wednesday at Sotheby’s in London. The price, which included ...

A London Exhibition Delves Deeper into Francis Bacon’s ‘Human Presence’ Ephemera and other materials in the National Portrait Gallery show—letters, filmed interviews, the Rembrandt, photos ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint portraits. At least, not in any conventional sense. Sure, he ...

A 1964 portrait of Lucian Freud by fellow British artist Francis Bacon will make its auction debut later this month at Sotheby’s in London with an estimate above £35 million (US$42.4 million ...

The Grand Palais during the 1971 “Francis Bacon, in Paris” exhibition. Photographer André Morain. Courtesy of Christie’s London.

A visitor studies Francis Bacon, 1967 by J.S. Lewinski. David Parry The moral perturbation of seeing the anguish of the flesh as it dissolves in Bacon’s paintings is heightened by the presence ...