A streaked, shifting face hangs in darkness, its expression at once serene and tortured. The poster was for an upcoming retrospective on Francis Bacon and isolated the left-hand panel of the ...
Francis Bacon discusses his work and methods with David Sylvester. In this lauded interview, Bacon reveals his artistic influences, details his tightrope walk between abstract and figurative ...
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, thirty years younger than Bacon ...