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” was released.

Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure.

The March marquee sales land at a moment when the pound is riding high, giving the major auction houses a reason to bet big on the masterpieces they’re putting on the block.

Art is not a luxury but a necessity—an essential tool for living. Francis Bacon ’s work made this clear to me as a teenager ...

What Art Can Tell Us About Love, Nick Trend, Laurence King Publishing, 208pp, £18.99 (hb) The UK journalist Nick Trend ...

Sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s are down, but winter sales of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art has unearthed some ...

London Evening Sale and The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale during the press preview on 27 February in London.

"James Birch is a somewhat mysterious art dealer and curator" who made a name for himself in 1988 by mounting a Francis Bacon ...

Stephen Wakelam's play for Drama on 3, Bacon in Moscow, reveals how Francis Bacon became the first major Western artist to have a solo exhibition in the Soviet Union. This is the story of an ...

One of the most closely watched lots will be ‘Portrait of Man with Glasses III,’ which comes to auction fresh from its inclusion in the National Portrait Gallery’s major Francis Bacon ...