The portrait depicts banker José Capelo, a man Bacon was 'infatuated' with. A portrait of the Spanish banker José Capelo by the aritst Francis Bacon has been recovered by the Policía Nacional. Photo ...

LONDON, March 15 – A dark Francis Bacon painting of a screaming pope, said to be the earliest in his series of papal depictions, went on display in London on Tuesday, the first time the artwork has ...

The painter Francis Bacon, descendent of the 16th century philosopher, once said, “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery,” and he certainly succeeded in that mission in the course of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In 2013, Francis Bacon’s painting Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for $142 million, setting the world record (since surpassed) for the most expensive painting sold at auction. His second-and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers install Francis Bacon's 1969 triptych "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" inside Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David ...

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 ...

The first single-panel portrait that Francis Bacon painted of his muse and lover George Dyer will be offered in May at Sotheby’s in New York for a price the auction house estimates could reach US$50 ...

Spanish police said on Thursday they had recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, worth an estimated €5 million ($5.42 million), and one of five stolen from ...