Keeper of a Painter’s Secrets? Or a Fantasist and a Trickster?
Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure.
The Art Newspaper4d
March Book Bag: from a compilation of artist love stories to a polemic questioning morality in art
What Art Can Tell Us About Love, Nick Trend, Laurence King Publishing, 208pp, £18.99 (hb) The UK journalist Nick Trend ...
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Modigliani, Bacon and Magritte works on offer at Christie's art sales
Paintings by Francis Bacon, Amedeo Modigliani and Rene Magritte are some of the works on offer at London auction house ...
London’s art market is in decline. Can these works give it a boost?
Sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s are down, but winter sales of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art has unearthed some ...
Observer8d
From Schiele to Banksy: What to Watch in London’s Spring Art Auctions
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 ...
Gilbert & George and the Communists: an 'illuminating' look at the 'peculiar' world of the art duo
In 2022, he published "Bacon in Moscow", a "gripping book about that adventure". Now, he has "written an even more gripping ...
Observer12d
The Courage to Choose Art
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 ...
The Malta Independent21d
Francis Bacon’s ‘Portrait of Man with Glasses ???’ to lead Christie’s London Evening Sale
The painting's distorted yet captivating features ... Sylvester's Interviews with Francis Bacon. The mouth is the centrepiece of so many of Bacon's masterpieces from the toothy jaws of Three ...
The Lancet1d
Deconstructing drugs
The Sainsbury Centre is an art museum situated on the University of East Anglia campus near Norwich, UK. Its Living Area—a ...