Bacon's biographer, Michael Peppiatt, recalls that the painter would have piles of books ... scientist and statesman Sir Francis Bacon, after whom he was named – died while experimenting with ...

An exhibition of work by Irish painter Francis Bacon has opened in Norwich ... The exhibition will feature Study of a Pope which was rescued by Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury after being slashed with a ...

The painting is not the work of Sir Francis Bacon, the English essayist, philosopher and statesman you learned about in school. The Bacon I am talking about is his nephew — just plain old ...

the British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) said, “I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory ...

A painting of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon, which has been kept in private and not exhibited anywhere since 1965, the year after it was painted, has surfaced for sale at Sotheby’s in London ...