On the face of it, the exhibition ... and distorted faces'. But the Estate of Francis Bacon is appalled. Alerted that the pieces are from the Ravarino Collection - described as 'a renowned ...

The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis ... his own face (a generous inclusion of ...

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 ...

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 ...