ROME (Reuters Life!) - Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in new exhibition connecting their tormented ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Francis Bacon retrospective starting at the New York Metropolitan Museum on Wednesday is not for the faint-hearted. The ...
Just a month after a record-shattering auction of works by Damien Hirst, the economic crisis has suddenly hit the art market with two big London sales in recent days falling short of previous highs. London has hosted scores of eye-poppingly expensive sales ...
The contemporary art-market boom, which has brought wealth to auction houses and some artists over the past five years, is coming gently and quietly to an end. Observers have been waiting for these few days where auction houses hold their high-profile contemporary ...
An oil painting of Francis Bacon by his close friend Lucian Freud, one of only two of its kind, has been sold for 5.4 million pounds in London, the auction house Christie's said. The unfinished and rarely-seen work, is the last known ...
An oil painting of Francis Bacon by his close friend Lucian Freud, one of only two of its kind, was sold on Sunday for more than nine million dollars, auction house Christie's said. The unfinished and rarely-seen work, painted in 1956-7, fetched ...
Francic Bacom Tate Britain (sponsored by Bank of America), until 4 January 2009 At Tate Britain is a glorious centenary show of paintings by one of our greatest modern painters, Francis Bacon. It's more than 20 years since the last Bacon retrospective ...
Francis BaconTate Britain, London SW1, until 4 Jan There are exhibitions - rare, superbly curated - that redefine an artist for a generation. The presentation of 100 works by Francis Bacon at Tate Britain until January, then at the Prado and the ...
This is the hot ticket of the year, a chance to see Francis Bacon in his entirety, from struggling Soho denizen to celebrated artist, in an exhibition marking the centenary of his birth. Bacon is Britain's answer to French surrealism. His raw, ...
Face to faces ... a gallery visitor has a closer look at Francis Bacon's Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, 1963, part of Tate Britain's Bacon retrospective. Photo: Andy Rain/EPA Visiting the big new Francis Bacon exhibition at London's Tate ...
Like all good art, it challenges preconceptions. Read up on the Colony Room, and the words 'squalid' and 'rude' feature often, along with a sense of dirty reverence for the past, of old stagers pretending to recall the night Francis Bacon held ...
Barbara Dawson, director of the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, remembers very clearly the day in 1997 when she climbed the steep stairs and entered Francis Bacon's studio at 7 Reece Mews, South Kensington. It had been left the way it was ...
