Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked? For most of the second half of the 20th century, the Irish-born painter’s unstinting ...

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“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery,” the painter Francis Bacon wrote. Rather, that art thrives as ...

It’s the pity of it that hits you. The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits is like a gut punch. Triptych May-June 1973 is atypical ...

This month, the Francis Bacon: Human Presence exhibit opened at the National Portrait Gallery.

Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery has the perfect subject in its stirring, splendid new show Francis Bacon: Human Presence.

Francis Bacon's New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal philosophical shape to a new and rapidly emerging experimental science. It challenged the entire edifice ...

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 ...