Sadly on this day, in 1992, the world-famous raw Irish artist Francis Bacon passed away. Here we look back on his life and ...
Extraordinary, ground-breaking, devastating. Decadent, verbally vicious, and a loyal and generous friend. He was the toast of the art world and maker of what was once the most expensive painting on ...
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 ...
From his early failures to the untimely death of two of his lovers, the life of the Dublin-born artist is laid bare in this absorbing read Chaos and obsession: Artist Francis Bacon in front of the ...
The Pulitzer Prize winners took on a momentous task in penning a new biography. Did they live up to the task of narrating the disturbing life of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century? The ...
This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...
British writer Michael Peppiatt first published his widely appreciated biography of painter Francis Bacon in 1997. Since then, he has kept abreast of everything he could find, published and ...
Last week, there were two major events relating to Francis Bacon and, on this occasion at least, they didn’t have anything to do with the artist’s record-breaking market, but with a renewed and ...
“Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards,” 1980, by Francis Bacon. (The Estate of Francis Bacon, 80-01. All rights reserved. Private collection, USA.) Review ...
Arabella Pike of HarperPress has beaten off competition from six other publishers in an auction for the rights to a new biography of artist Francis Bacon. Pike finalised the deal for UK and ...
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