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

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 ...

Almost 30 years after his death, the unabated edginess of Bacon’s paintings, and the dark literary sources informing them, put the lie to our self-mythologizing.

Francis Bacon's portrait of George Dyer could realize between $30 million and $50 million when it heads to auction in May.

Investors with a taste for fine painting will be able to buy a slice of a triptych by Francis Bacon when the piece goes on sale via an initial public offering in July.

In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992, the year that Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” was released.

The National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) first Francis Bacon exhibition is an overdue acknowledgement of one of the 20th century’s foremost figurative artists.

Francis Bacon’s Nanny is an impressive endpoint to Besserie’s sustained engagement over three novels with the imaginative turbulence of Irish artistic achievement.