Artnet

Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon Were Irritable Sitters, But Painting Each Other’s Portraits Taught Them Valuable Lessons About Art

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 ...

Interpreting Francis Bacon through O=L^T/E

Applying "Knowledge is Power" to modern theories of science, education, and social reformAuthor: SHUN SUZUKIIntroduction—Why ...
Artnet

Hidden for Decades, Francis Bacon’s Tragic Final Pope Painting Will Now Go on Sale at Christie’s London

Art collectors will have the chance to snag not one, but two exceptional pope paintings by Francis Bacon at the Post-War & Contemporary Art auction at Christie’s next month during Frieze Art Fair in ...
Hyperallergic

The Unsparing Pages of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, “Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres” (1983), oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm; Collection Berardo, Lisbon; © The Estate of Francis Bacon/All rights ...
The Boston Globe

A new biography gives us Francis Bacon in full

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’s an ...
Hyperallergic

The Calmer, Contemplative Mood of Francis Bacon’s Late Paintings

Francis Bacon, “Self-Portrait” (1978), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (Private Collection, © The Estate of Francis Bacon, all rights reserved / DACS, London / ARS ...
Observer

A London Exhibition Delves Deeper into Francis Bacon’s ‘Human Presence’

“Francis Bacon: Human Presence” at London’s National Portrait Gallery is the institution’s first exhibition of the artist’s portraits. Featuring more than fifty key paintings from across his career, ...
Wall Street Journal

Francis Bacon Painted the Human Animal

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 ...
Observer

Francis Bacon’s Portrait of Muse and Lover George Dyer Makes Its Auction Debut

Francis Bacon, the Irish-born artist known for figurative and occasionally unsettling portraits, painted subjects ranging from disfigured friends to screaming popes. One of his greatest muses, however ...
The Atlantic

The Search for Francis Bacon

WHEN, some years ago, I set out to write about Sir Francis Bacon, the undertaking loomed frighteningly large. Not only had Bacon been written about copiously for more than three hundred years, but I ...
The Atlantic

The Brilliance in Francis Bacon’s Early Failures

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 ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Francis Bacon’ Review: Furious Beauty

In the spring of 1949, the press baron Viscount Rothermere gave a ball that defied Britain’s postwar decline. The men wore white tie, the women their family jewels. The Queen Mother was there, and so ...