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Francis Bacon

May 2024

  • Oil painting of José Capelo by Francis Bacon

    Spanish police recover Francis Bacon painting worth €5m

    Two people arrested over theft of José Capelo portraits in Madrid in 2015 – one of which is still missing
  • Francis Bacon with one of his pieces of art.

    ‘Greedy, tricky and lacking politeness’: Francis Bacon’s contempt for the Marlborough Gallery

    Exclusive: Previously unheard tapes of the coveted British artist reveal his frustration at his long-time London art dealers
  • Black and white portrait of Francis Bacon in his studio, surrounded by debris and materials, staring fixedly at the viewer

    Book of the day
    Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words by Michael Peppiatt review – glimpses of a demon-driven genius

    Despite the painter’s lack of ‘epistolary fluency’, this collection of his writings – from drunken interviews to begging letters – offers some insight into his working methods and private life

February 2024

  • Francis Bacon’s Study of George Dyer, 1970, held by an assistant wearing a white coat and gloves

    Francis Bacon portrait of lover George Dyer to go on sale

    Artist chose study to appear in first big retrospective in 1971. Dyer was found dead in couple’s hotel room 36 hours before show’s opening

August 2023

  • Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi

    Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians

    Corruption agency hopes portal will ‘make it difficult for Russian oligarchs to sell such assets’

June 2023

  • The Observer magazine cover of 5 March 1967 featuring Francis Bacon

    From the Observer archive
    Stranger than the sum of his parts: Francis Bacon’s legacy, 1967

  • David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972.

    Capturing the Moment review – not a serious exhibition

May 2023

  • Tate Britain rehang, installation view 2023.

    Tate Britain rehang review – this is now the museum where art goes to sleep

    Tate Britain, London
    Once the provocative home of artistic sensation, the gallery is now vacuous, worthy and fundamentally dull. It even seems to disapprove of the very British art it used to promote

February 2023

  • Roald Dahl, Francis Bacon and Barry Joule

    Roald Dahl threatened publisher with ‘enormous crocodile’ if they changed his words

    Conversation with Francis Bacon emerges amid the row over updating controversial language in the children’s author’s books

November 2022

  • People view Cézanne’s landscape

    Microsoft co-founder’s collection poised to raise $1bn in ‘largest art auction in history’

    Proceeds from sale of 150 works owned by the late billionaire Paul Allen will go to charity

October 2022

  • Francis Bacon in his studio, 1980.

    Lovers’ drunken brawl nearly cost Francis Bacon an eye, diaries reveal

    The spat and injury inspired Bacon to paint his violent expressionist canvas Self-Portrait with Injured Eye

September 2022

  • Francis Bacon

    ‘A class of his own’: Sale of rare Bacon works marks 30th anniversary of artist’s death

    The auction will include rarely seen paintings, a rug, photographs and letters

August 2022

  • The Groucho Club in Dean Street, Soho.=

    ‘Home for hell-raisers’: new owners of Groucho Club seek young blood

    Private members’ club that takes pride in being a ‘hub for creatives’ to consider international expansion

June 2022

  • Francis Bacon’s portrait of Lucian Freud was based on a black and white photograph taken by their mutual friend John Deakin.

    Francis Bacon portrait of Lucian Freud expected to sell for over £35m at auction

    Painting, based on black and white photograph, last exhibited in 1965 as part of a triptych

April 2022

  • A photograph of Francis Bacon and Barry Joule with the art dealer Catharina Toto Koopman on holiday in Sicily in 1987.

    Friend of Francis Bacon snubs the Tate to give art works to Paris instead

    Barry Joule says he is cancelling plans to donate a collection to the UK gallery because it failed to exhibit works in earlier gift

March 2022

  • Death Denied, 2008, on display in Damien Hirst: Natural History.

    ‘This is art for the penthouses of oligarchs’ – Damien Hirst: Natural History review

  • Visitors to the the exhibition Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon in Barcelona last year.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about suffering artists

February 2022

  • Notation 2017, Mequitta Ahuja.

    Empty shops could be studios for next Bacon or Hirst, says leading curator

    Opening up dead retail space to artists could revive town centres and cultural life, says Whitechapel Gallery director

January 2022

  • Installation view of the ‘Francis Bacon: Man and Beast’ exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (29 January – 17 April 2022) showing Francis Bacon, Triptych August 1972, 1972. Tate. Photo: © Royal Academy of Arts, London / David Parry. © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2022

    Francis Bacon: Man and Beast review – the brutal truth

  • Detail of Study for Bullfight No 1, 1969, showing at Royal Academy’s Francis Bacon: Man and Beast.

    Francis Bacon: Man and Beast review – ‘I want to run away, but I can’t stop looking’

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