Francis Bacon Triptych Sells for $84.6 Million Sotheby’s tests a new hybrid auction market with a work by the British painter — and socially-distanced bid-takers in three cities.

The Hugh Lane Gallery is to close to the public for refurbishment works in September. The planned refurbishment of the ...

At MASSIMODECARLO, London, the artist presents a series of unnerving paintings based on archival photographs of Francis Bacon ...

Francis Bacon’s 1963 painting Landscape near Malabata, Tangier will lead Christie’s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London on March 7. It’s the first time the work has resurfaced on the ...

One of a series of Bacon works depicting somber popes on thrones, “Study for Portrait II” — which according to the Daily Tele graph belongs to Sophia Loren — will handily top the record $15 million ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...

In the central panel of one of Bacon’s great works from the 1970s, Triptych — In Memory of George Dyer, a shadowy man stands near the landing of a darkened stairwell, turning a tiny key in a lock.

A painting by Irish-born artist Francis Bacon sold for 18.0 million pounds ($28.7 million) on Tuesday, the second highest price paid for a work of art at a Christie's post-war and contemporary ...

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.

NEW YORK — A triptych by Francis Bacon of his longtime companion is poised to sell for about $80 million at Christie’s as the spring art auction season revs up with sales of postwar and ...