The received wisdom about artist Francis Bacon’s life goes: He painted like a maniac in his chaotic studio every day, drank like a maniac in London’s seedy Soho neighborhood every night. There’s an ...

This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...

Extraordinary, ground-breaking, devastating. Decadent, verbally vicious, and a loyal and generous friend. He was the toast of the art world and maker of what was once the most expensive painting on ...

A new book, Francis Bacon: Revelations, shows the painter as he tried to recapture the intensity of wartime when the world turned mundane. By Andrew Marr How great was the work of Francis Bacon?

A new comprehensive monograph detailing Francis Bacon’s artistic journey is now up for grabs. Titled Francis Bacon or the Measure of Excess, the expansive book is penned by Bacon’s close friend Yves ...

The Pulitzer Prize winners took on a momentous task in penning a new biography. Did they live up to the task of narrating the disturbing life of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century? The ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The ball was given by a Lady Rothermere, but it was Princess Margaret everyone would remember, in ...

The children’s author Roald Dahl once found an unlikely confidant in the artist Francis Bacon, according to the Observer which reports that the pair once discussed the delicate topic of censorship.

In contrast to the bleakness of his art, this starry-eyed chronicle shows the painter could be genial, generous and waspishly funny Francis Bacon in Your Blood By Michael Peppiatt, Bloomsbury USA, 416 ...