This article was published 08/09/2008 (5838 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. LONDON – No artist captured the horror of the 20th century quite the way Francis Bacon did.

"Each case is like a detective novel," says the head of the heritage brigade. "Of the five paintings by Francis Bacon that ...

A middling science-fiction remake is an unlikely venue for high art, and yet Francis Bacon’s paintings are on such prominent display in RoboCop that something is clearly afoot. Indeed, the movie ...

Visitors to Francis Bacon: Human Presence are greeted by his studies of papal figures and men in suits. In these works, Bacon encased his figures in the suggestions of boxes, which are known as “space ...

A gallery assistant poses with a painting by Francis Bacon revealing the artist's first treatment of the papal image, exhibited for the first time since it was painted in 1946 at the Gagosian ...

One art expert told Spain’s El Pais newspaper: “The circle in which works like this could be sold is very small. It’s not easy to offer a Francis Bacon, big or small the thieves are not ...

I can't get past Klunder's new Francis Bacon-ism. "Bacon has raw power that isn't about style," says Klunder. " Your paintings don't have any style," I tell him. "That's right," he says, rather ...

The sale of a painting by British artist Francis Bacon, for £42.2 million ($70 million US), broke a European record for Christies auction house in London.

At MASSIMODECARLO, London, the artist presents a series of unnerving paintings based on archival photographs of Francis Bacon ...

Francis Bacon was one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent artists, and he had a personality that, like his paintings, was enigmatic and built on extremes.