There may be no obvious traces of Ireland or Irishness in Bacon's work, yet his studio now resides in the heart of Dublin ...

THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, designed by Henry Bacon, honors Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States.

Artist and artisan, art theorist and proto-installation artist, master of high-publicity performances and rival of Auguste Rodin—Medardo Rosso (b. 1858 in Turin, d. 1928 in Milan) was one of the great ...

This double portrait was one of the five Bacon artworks stolen in Madrid (Spanish police photo, May 2016) Spanish police say they have recovered three of five paintings by Francis Bacon that were ...

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 extraordinary project, born of perestroika and glasnost ...

“Francis Bacon: Human Presence” at London’s National Portrait Gallery is the institution’s first exhibition of the artist’s portraits. Featuring more than fifty key paintings from across ...

New Haven, The Yale Centre for British art. This Exhibition later travelled to: Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth, Museum of Modern Art ...

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 ...

"Spain has probably been the most important foreign country for Bacon in every sense. As an artist, because he obviously ...

He was active in Soho's artists circles in the 1950s and 60s, friends with influential British figurative painters Lucian ...

Such a man is Britain’s Francis Bacon, but it is unlikely that his portraits will ever hang in any corporation board room. His paintings attack conventional concepts of beauty, plow the flesh ...

Ceramics specialist Steven Moore said he would love to see a piece of furniture designed by the painter Francis Bacon in the 1930s. Although it had been photographed at the time, and a few of his ...