As Heath Ledger was preparing to play the Joker in "The Dark Knight", Christopher Nolan shared a book of his favorite artist.

A painting by Francis Bacon that was stolen in 2015 has been covered in Madrid by Spanish police. The recovered painting is one of five portraits of the Spanish banker José Capelo that are ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Francis Bacon painting valued at £60m is to be seen in public for the first time for 45 years when it goes under the hammer next month. His Study of Red Pope 1962, 2nd Version 1971 was the last ...

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

Accusing Christie’s of bad faith, a South Korean gallery claims in a pair of lawsuits that the storied auction house sold a Francis Bacon painting at a “bargain-basement price.” MANHATTAN (CN) – ...

Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon and Catholicism. He’s the ­working-class hero who as a 23-year-old art student at the University of London’s Goldsmiths ...

A unique exhibition bringing together Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão and a site-specific installation by Carlos Bunga—who will also select works from the CAM Collection—are the two highlights of CAM’s ...

painting by the late British artist Francis Bacon. The small canvas, an 1989 oil entitled "Study for a Portrait of Jose Capelo," had been stolen from banker Capelo's Madrid apartment in 2015 along ...

Recorded in 1965, Julian Jebb interviews Francis Bacon about his contemporaries in the art world, his working practices and his personal philosophies. Show more Recorded in 1965, this pilot for a ...