Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Francis Bacon’s Head of Boy, 1960 There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century ...

Francis Bacon’s distorted forms, caught in hellish moments, are etched into the brain of those with only a passing interest in the art canon, an eerie familiarity that still doesn’t prepare you for ...

LONDON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- Artist Francis Bacon's handyman has given London's Tate Gallery sketches from the painter worth almost $37 million 12 years after Bacon died. The gift from Barry Joule, who ...

On this day, October 28, 1909, Francis Bacon was born in Dublin and would grow into one of the twentieth century’s most provocative painters. His stark, distorted portraits and famous triptychs ...

Ten works claimed to be by Francis Bacon have gone on sale at London’s Herrick Gallery despite being rejected as fakes from the artist’s first catalogue raisonné, to be published by the artist’s ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “She’s supposed to be here instead of the paintings,” said Los Angeles County Museum of Art Director and Chief ...

Bacon and Freud were the two bad boys of London painting from the 1940s onward. They were extravagant men with legendary appetites for booze, sex, and gambling. Francis Bacon, 'Three Studies of the ...