There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint portraits. At least, not in any conventional sense.

Francis Bacon in 1972 as photographed by Mayotte Magnus. Mayotte Magnus, National Portrait Gallery London. But “Human Presence” is about more than what made Bacon tick; the exhibition also ...

Spanish police have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Francis Bacon stolen in 2015. The painting, titled "Study for Portrait of José Capelo," is valued at $5.4 million.

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The faces in his paintings, which dissolve at every turn, are chilling – as a major show at the ...

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 ...

Francis Bacon, Portrait of George Dyer Crouching, (1966). Courtesy Sotheby's. Francis Bacon, the Irish-born artist known for figurative and occasionally unsettling portraits, painted subjects ...

A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon will be publicly listed this summer, giving investors the ability to buy and sell shares in an artwork on a stock exchange for the first time.

Francis Bacon’s Portrait of George Dyer Crouching, 1966, is being sold in May at a contemporary art evening sale at Sotheby’s in New York.It’s estimated to sell for between $30 million and ...

Francis Bacon, “Portrait of George Dyer Crouching” (1966), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (all images courtesy Sotheby’s) Since his emergence in the 1940s, painter Francis Bacon has been ...