The received wisdom about artist Francis Bacon’s life goes: He painted like a maniac in his chaotic studio every day, drank like a maniac in London’s seedy Soho neighborhood every night. There ...

Francis Bacon Three Portraits – Posthumous of George Dyer; Self-Portrait; Portrait of Lucien Freud, 1973 oil on canvas, each panel 198 x 147.5 cm; Private Collection, ...

Two days later, on July 2, a major exhibition of his work, entitled “Francis Bacon: Monaco and French Culture” opened to the public at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, gathering 66 paintings by ...

Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" is on loan to the Portland Art Museum through March 30. (AP) The faces are ferocious, distorted, hideous. The bodies slouch insolently. The rooms ...

PARIS — There is something odd about the Francis Bacon exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, though it takes a while to discern exactly what that something is. “Bacon: Books and Painting ...

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 ...

Law & Politics Francis Bacon’s Former Handyman Has Threatened to Sue Tate Because the Works He Donated Are Sitting in Storage Barry Joule said his donation might be better off in a French museum ...

A Francis Bacon masterpiece from the collection of the late media mogul S.I. Newhouse will go up for auction for the first time next month at Christie’s in New York.