There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint ...

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 distorted forms ... t prepare you for the sheer emotionality of his major retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery. Taking you from Bacon’s early portraits in the 1940s, through ...

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 ...

Has the Francis Bacon cult peaked ... who hits us on levels other artists don’t reach. Bacon on the face of it is a no-brainer for the National Portrait Gallery. Just about everything he ...

89.5 x 62.5 cm. (35.2 x 24.6 in.) Blatt minim gebräunt und leicht lichtrandig. Provenienz: Galerie Wild, Frankfurt am Main (dort erworben 2007); europäische Privatsammlung. Literatur: Bruno Sabatier, ...

Dellasposa are presenting Tales from the Colony Room: Art and Bohemia, a group exhibition featuring more than seventy artists associated with legendary Soho club, including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud ...

"Étude pour un portrait de John Edwards" (nach der rechten Tafel des ... Literatur: Bruno Sabatier, Francis Bacon. The grafic work, Catalogue raisonné, Paris 2012, S. 76, Nr. 20. Das Blatt entstand ...

“If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides,” says Francis ... the English portrait tradition—the grand manner. This phrase was used by Sir Joshua Reynolds ...

Francis Bacon: Human Presence at the National Portrait Gallery review — a brilliant transgressive party on x (opens in a new window) Francis Bacon: Human Presence at the National Portrait ...

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