Francis Bacon, “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” (1969) (screenshot via christies.com) As Christie’s preps to sell off Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” for a possible record price of $100 ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked? For most of the second half of the 20th century, the Irish-born painter’s unstinting bleakness, ravaged flesh and sado-masochistic homoeroticism made him the outrage ...

Prince Albert of Monaco is due to inaugurate the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation in Monte Carlo today. The opening of the philanthropic organization marks the anniversary of the birth of the British ...

Fans of Francis Bacon, rejoice: a new publication by the French poet and author Yves Peyré, Francis Bacon Or the Measure of Excess, out now from ACC Art Books, offers a touching and intimate tribute ...

The Brooklyn Museum’s page on the Francis Bacon painting (screenshot by the author via the Wayback Machine) There’s something very curious about the Francis Bacon painting that is slated to go up for ...

Francis Bacon spent the first 16 years of his life growing up on a stud farm in Ireland surrounded by horses and dogs. For Bacon, an asthmatic, danger lurked in animal fur, and forever after the ...

The late artist's Three Studies of Lucian Freud is now the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. Also at Christie's, Andy Warhol's... Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a 1969 triptych ...

This lithograph was published in 1975 on the occasion of Francis Bacon's first major show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was also the first exhibition of a contemporary British artist's work ...

The received wisdom about artist Francis Bacon’s life goes: He painted like a maniac in his chaotic studio every day, drank like a maniac in London’s seedy Soho neighborhood every night. There’s an ...

John Edwards, 53, who was the artist Francis Bacon’s closest friend for 18 years and heir to his paintings and property, died Tuesday in Bangkok of lung cancer. The model for at least 30 of Bacon’s ...