“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, ...

A rare portrait by celebrated painter Francis Bacon will go on auction this month at Sotheby's London for the first time in the artwork's history."Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud," painted in 1964, ...

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 depicted ...

Francis Bacon, the Irish-born artist known for figurative and occasionally unsettling portraits, painted subjects ranging from disfigured friends to screaming popes. One of his greatest muses, however ...

Francis Bacon, "Portrait of George Dyer Crouching" (1966), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (all images courtesy Sotheby's) Now, Bacon’s first full-scale portrait of Dyer is headed to auction at ...