Two rare self-portraits by Francis Bacon never shown in public before will go under the hammer for the first time at Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Evening Sale, on July 1. Bacon’s Self ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits ... appear as hefty as a watermelon), his self-portraits, scattered throughout, are the most customarily revealing ...

Known for his portraiture, Bacon depicts himself in usual fashion, with his characteristically blurred and self-effacing style sitting comfortably in a casual room fit with a simple chair and table.

“Francis Bacon: Human Presence” at London’s National ... veins and sticky viscera. His 1973 self-portrait resembles a human heart sliced in half and superimposed on vague ideas of collapsing ...

Francis Bacon’s distorted forms ... Taking you from Bacon’s early portraits in the 1940s, through self-portraits and portraits of friends in the 1950s, to the personal relationships that defined his ...

The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits is like ... there’s a continuous thread of searching self-portraits, despite his dislike ...

Francis Bacon’s 1964 portrait of fellow British ... both top lots— Andy Warhol’s Self Portrait and Claude Monet Vétheuil—sold at the low end of presale estimate ranges.

all brought together in the book Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words. The letters, interviews and studio notes of this elusive Mr Big of the art racket will be pored over for leads ...

Bacon’s friend and biographer explores the personal legacy of one of the 20th century’s most important artists through his letters, statements and notes, many of which are published here for ...