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 ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...