In this 1985 documentary on the artist, made while he was still very much alive, Francis Bacon talks through one of his most iconic works and explains how he makes paintings. The documentary features ...
Tracing Echoes shows the expansion of the artist’s palette from the monochromatic paintings the of early 2000s ...
TIME art critic Richard Lacayo reviews the magnificent exhibit celebrating the artist’s upcoming centenary Bacon's studio was a famous mess, a sedimentary sludge pile of books, rags, half-finished ...
LONDON — Full in your face, you might say. Before you enter the exhibition proper, you see a photograph of Francis Bacon as a relatively young man, confronting you through the glass in the double ...
Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné contains over 900 illustrations across five, cloth-bound hardcover volumes. The three 400-page volumes that make up the study of Bacon's entire oeuvre are bookended ...
The film lit the blue touch paper by looking at Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, which, when exhibited in London in 1945, did little to enhance any sense of euphoria at ...