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

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.

Three paintings in the series are in institutional ... in a Royal Academy of Arts exhibition in London in 2022 titled “Francis Bacon: Man and Beast,” Sotheby’s said. More: Art Market Dip ...

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 ...

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.

Indeed, the careful, even tight-arsed handling of the circular forms protruding from the artist’s face contradicts everything ...

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 ...

Accusing Christie’s of bad faith, a South Korean gallery claims in a pair of lawsuits that the storied auction house sold a Francis Bacon painting at a “bargain-basement price.” MANHATTAN (CN) – ...

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 ...