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 ...

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 ...

Francis Bacon in 1972 as photographed by Mayotte Magnus. Mayotte Magnus, National Portrait Gallery London. But “Human Presence” is about more than what made Bacon tick; the exhibition also ...

Francis Bacon – Human Presence review: the outrage king of British art at his terrifying best, and worst - 4/5 Blockbuster show at the National Portrait Gallery overcomes Bacon’s late career ...

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 ...

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.

Christie’s employees adjust Francis Bacon’s ‘Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer’ in 2017. Shares of the artwork will soon be sold in an initial public offering.

Producer and Director Karen McGrath introduces The Outsider, her revealing new documentary about iconic painter Francis Bacon, hosted by U2's Adam Clayton and premiering on RTÉ One this December ...

Francis Bacon, Portrait of George Dyer Talking, (1966). Andrew Cowie/AFP via Getty Images. The portrait was also displayed during Bacon’s 1966 solo show at Paris’s Galerie Maeght, and more ...