A packed survey at the National Portrait Gallery in London reveals an artist who was the architect of his own myth ...

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

Blockbuster show at the National Portrait Gallery overcomes Bacon’s late career lows to prove that his brutally frank ...

The triptych, which depicts Dyer variously as he was found, slumped on the toilet; vomiting into a sink; and heaving with ...

In Head VI (1949), this screaming face is grafted ... and you always will be’: The extraordinary life of Francis Bacon’s muse Autumn culture guide 2024: From Sally Rooney’s new novel to ...

Francis Bacon’s Self-Portrait ... the Arts Council’s Head VI (1949), in which a hanging tassel torments the ticklish nose of a screaming figure inspired by Diego Velazquez’s Pope Innocent ...

One of the artist’s many portraits of Henrietta Moraes, who was known as ‘the Queen of Soho’, is the highlight of a new show ...

The last bit of the show focuses on those closest to him. His friend Henrietta Moraes is all sensual red swirls, fellow artist Lucian Freud is brutish and ape-like, the artist Isabel Rawsthorn is ...

In Head VI (1949), this screaming face is grafted ... Bacon exhibitions routinely astound in the first half and disappoint in ...