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 ...

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 ...

In contrast to the bleakness of his art, this starry-eyed chronicle shows the painter could be genial, generous and waspishly funny In the summer of 1963, exactly 200 years after James Boswell first ...

In 2013, Francis Bacon’s painting Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for $142 million, setting the world record (since surpassed) for the most expensive painting sold at auction. His second-and ...

Francis Bacon's 1969 painting Three Studies of Lucian Freud was bought at Christie's last night for $142.4 million, setting a record for the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction. (It beat ...