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 ...
Sadly on this day, in 1992, the world-famous raw Irish artist Francis Bacon passed away. Here we look back on his life and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Arabella Pike of HarperPress has beaten off competition from six other publishers in an auction for the rights to a new biography of artist Francis Bacon. Pike finalised the deal for UK and ...
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 ...
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