Francis Bacon
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
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
22, Feb, 2024 @6:00 AM
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’
Daniel Boffey in Dnipro
08, Aug, 2023 @4:00 AM
Stranger than the sum of his parts: Francis Bacon’s legacy, 1967
Five years after his first major Tate retrospective, a critic wonders how future generations will view the artist
Emma Beddington
25, Jun, 2023 @5:01 AM
Capturing the Moment review – not a serious exhibition
You can’t move for masterpieces – most of them owned by the Taiwanese collector Pierre Chen – but this supposed journey through painting and photography is rambling and at times comically simplistic
Laura Cumming
18, Jun, 2023 @12:00 PM
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
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
Jonathan Jones
23, May, 2023 @12:35 PM
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
Dalya Alberge
25, Feb, 2023 @2:33 PM
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
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent
05, Nov, 2022 @7:00 AM
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
Dalya Alberge
30, Oct, 2022 @10:00 AM
‘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
Kim Willsher
21, Sep, 2022 @4:08 PM
‘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
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
11, Aug, 2022 @7:58 AM
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
Mark Brown
15, Jun, 2022 @11:00 AM
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
Dalya Alberge
17, Apr, 2022 @6:37 AM
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