Fans of Francis Bacon, rejoice: a new publication by the French poet and author Yves Peyré, Francis Bacon Or the Measure of Excess, out now from ACC Art Books, offers a touching and intimate tribute ...

Prince Albert of Monaco is due to inaugurate the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation in Monte Carlo today. The opening of the philanthropic organization marks the anniversary of the birth of the British ...

Francis Bacon spent the first 16 years of his life growing up on a stud farm in Ireland surrounded by horses and dogs. For Bacon, an asthmatic, danger lurked in animal fur, and forever after the ...

Francis Bacon, “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” (1969) (screenshot via christies.com) As Christie’s preps to sell off Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” for a possible record price of $100 ...

A new comprehensive monograph detailing Francis Bacon’s artistic journey is now up for grabs. Titled Francis Bacon or the Measure of Excess, the expansive book is penned by Bacon’s close friend Yves ...

The Brooklyn Museum’s page on the Francis Bacon painting (screenshot by the author via the Wayback Machine) There’s something very curious about the Francis Bacon painting that is slated to go up for ...

The late artist's Three Studies of Lucian Freud is now the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. Also at Christie's, Andy Warhol's... Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a 1969 triptych ...

When “Figure in a Landscape” (1946) and “Study After Velasquez’ Portrait of Pope Innocent X” (1953) were included in a 1955 Museum of Modern Art exhibition of European artists, the British painter ...

With photographs of and information about his two long-term lovers and various statements about his abusive parents supplementing the "twisted" relationship of the perversely intertwined figures in ...