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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In August of 1998, a team of curators, conservators, and archaeologists arrived at 7 Reece Mews, a small flat in London’s South Kensington neighborhood, to start work on the month-long task of ...
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 ...
Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure. By Alex Marshall The artist organizes a show of seldom-seen paintings at Gagosian to ...
Francis Bacon's 1969 painting Three Studies of Lucian Freud was bought at Christie's last night for $142.4 million, setting a record for the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. (It beat ...
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