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

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked? For most of the second half of the 20th century, the Irish-born painter’s unstinting ...

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 ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. Francis Bacon (1561–1626), the English philosopher, statesman and jurist, is best ...

This double portrait was one of the five Bacon artworks stolen in Madrid (Spanish police photo, May 2016) Spanish police say they have recovered three of five paintings by Francis Bacon that were ...

Masahiro Ito, art director and creature designer of Silent Hill 2, revealed several aspects of inspiration for iconic creature designs.

Francis Bacon stands out as one of the most renowned postwar painters. His trauma fueled his emotions, crafting a disturbing world filled with dark, distorted figures.

Ceramics specialist Steven Moore said he would love to see a piece of furniture designed by the painter Francis Bacon in the 1930s. Although it had been photographed at the time, and a few of his ...

Francis Bacon discusses his work and methods with David Sylvester. In this lauded interview, Bacon reveals his artistic influences, details his tightrope walk between abstract and figurative ...