Francis Bacon is known, above all, for conceiving of a great and terrible human project: the conquest of nature for “ the relief of man’s estate.” This project, still ongoing, has its champions. “If ...

The National Portrait Gallery show is also an appreciation of Bacon’s innate understanding of how to make a painting work.

Francis Bacon: Human Presence contains enough variety of works in its climactic sections to account for the stronger and weaker aspects of the later Bacon, while veering thankfully towards the former.

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 ...

IN A.D. 1605 Sir Francis Bacon appended to the "Advancement of Learning" some prescriptions for posterity. These contain an injunction to construct "A Just Astrology". Bacon had previously ...

A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon will be publicly listed this summer, giving investors the ability to buy and sell shares in an artwork on a stock exchange for the first time.

FRANCIS BACON left his name and memory to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations, and the next ages. Safely and, it may be hoped, confidently. Within a year or so, two biographies have ...

Bacon remains tantalisingly out of reach, between the police record and real art. Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words by Michael Peppiatt Thames & Hudson £40, 480 pages ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...