It’s the pity of it that hits you. The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits is like a gut punch. Triptych May-June 1973 is atypical ...

In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992, the year that Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” ...

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

Francis Bacon (1909-1992 ... well-defined in a world of otherwise messy, complex, hazy painting. But it’s the portraits of his lovers that hold the most tension and power.

Did you know? Some of Francis Bacon’s most famous artworks are inspired by old masters, such as Head VI that is based on the 'Portrait Of Pope Innocent X' by the Spanish artist Diego Velazquez.

Alongside the artist’s self-portraits, sitters in this show of works from the 1950s onwards include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and Bacon's lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer, among many more.

This is the first of Sylvester's interviews with Bacon, which are regarded as some of the best discussions with the artist on his work. They were published as a book, Interviews with Francis Bacon ...

befriending Francis Bacon and associating with a group of figurative artists working in London during the late 1940s. During the course of his career he achieved widespread success and critical ...