In this 1985 documentary on the artist, made while he was still very much alive, Francis Bacon talks through one of his most iconic works and explains how he makes paintings. The documentary features ...

The portrait depicts banker José Capelo, a man Bacon was 'infatuated' with. A portrait of the Spanish banker José Capelo by the aritst Francis Bacon has been recovered by the Policía Nacional. Photo ...

The first single-panel portrait that Francis Bacon painted of his muse and lover George Dyer will be offered in May at Sotheby’s in New York for a price the auction house estimates could reach US$50 ...

Irish-born artist Francis Bacon's painting "Study for Portrait of Jose Capelo" has been recovered after being stolen in 2015, Policía Nacional (Spain's national police force) announced on Thursday, ...

A new initial public offering (IPO) is dropping this summer, but it’s not for a tech company or retailer. A 1963 three-panel oil painting by Francis Bacon is set to become the first artwork ever taken ...

LONDON (AP) -- A portrait by Francis Bacon has sold for 42.2 million pounds ($70 million) at a London auction, while an egg by U.S. artist Jeff Koons cracked the 14 million pound ($23 million) mark.

Francis Bacon’s 1963 painting Landscape near Malabata, Tangier will lead Christie’s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London on March 7. It’s the first time the work has resurfaced on the market in ...

The painter, like the filmmaker, created images that resonated with a specifically modern sense of horror. Some images recur. They’re spectral. They come out of the darkness — out of somewhere far ...

(AP) A 1969 painting by Francis Bacon is poised to topple the $86 million auction record for the British artist. “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” is being offered Tuesday at Christie’s postwar and ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police recovered three of five paintings by Irish-born artist Francis Bacon that were stolen from a Madrid home in 2015, they said on Wednesday. The paintings were estimated ...

In 2015, thieves quietly broke into a Madrid home and stole a safe full of coins and jewels. The robbers also took five paintings created by Francis Bacon, the Irish-born artist known for his ...

MADRID, May 23 (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Thursday they had recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, worth an estimated 5 million euros ($5.42 ...