...saw Francis Bacon once in passing 30 years ago, on the gilt and velvet staircase at the Royal Opera House. Even if I hadn't known who he was - the most celebrated painter of his time, all the more famous for the diabolical whiff of sulphur exuded by his alcoholic...
...Peppiatt, "I can't think of a worse fate than being loved by Francis." An early partner, Peter Lacy, fantasised about keeping Bacon chained to the wall and buggering him with a gang of accomplices; when they split up, Lacy sullenly drank himself to death in...
...him I'm out on a story. Fuck!" He left. It was 11:45am. In Room 10 of the Tate exhibition (entitled "Late") one can see Francis Bacon's last triptych from 1991, the painting that he may well have been working on when I telephoned. The catalogue observes of...
...These paintings, about to go on show at the Tate, represent the late Francis Bacon as he is rarely seen - as a man with an eye for the ladies, artistically at least. Kathryn Hughes introduces the colourful cast of women who would crop up in his work and...
...Life. Radical Figurative Painting from Sickert to Bevan (2003). James Hyman is an acknowledged expert and author on Francis Bacon. His widely acclaimed book The Battle for Realism: Figurative Art in Britain During the Cold War (1945-60), is published...
...January 4. Sponsored by the Bank of America A beautifully presented show at Tate Britain casts intriguing new light on Francis Bacon's visceral visions of humanity, says Richard Dorment Francis Bacon is something of an artistic chimera, a now-you-see-it-now-you-don't...
...see 70-odd of one artist's paintings in one place at one time is a different experience altogether. When that artist is Francis Bacon, a man given to working on a grand scale – typically, triptychs each of whose three panels may measure 6ft by 5ft – the risk...
...the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, remembers very clearly the day in 1997 when she climbed the steep stairs and entered Francis Bacon's studio at 7 Reece Mews, South Kensington. It had been left the way it was when he died, on April 28 1992, and it was a chaos...
...artist sold at auction. Pilar Ordovas, Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie’s London: “Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon are widely considered to be the most important British artists of the 20th century, and the international appreciation for their...
...colleague Lucian Freud is expected to sell for up to £7 million at auction this week even though it was never finished. Francis Bacon by Lucien Freud. The painting is expected to raise £7 million at auction Bacon abandoned sitting for Freud before he could...