Francis Bacon, the Irish-born artist known for figurative and occasionally unsettling portraits, painted subjects ranging from disfigured friends to screaming popes. One of his greatest muses, however ...

Francis Bacon, "Portrait of George Dyer Crouching" (1966), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (all images courtesy Sotheby's) Now, Bacon’s first full-scale portrait of Dyer is headed to auction at ...

Three Studies for a Self-Portrait by Francis Bacon is comprised of three lithographs in colors on a single sheet. Known for his portraiture, Bacon depicts himself in usual fashion, with his ...

The first single-panel portrait that Francis Bacon painted of his muse and lover George Dyer will be offered in May at Sotheby’s in New York for a price the auction house estimates could reach US$50 ...

A Francis Bacon painting of his friend Henrietta Moraes, one of the few women the artist painted, is expected to fetch as much as $13.9 million when it comes up for auction in London. The 14-inch-high ...

A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon of his great love sold for $27.7 million at Sotheby's spring sales in New York on Monday, topping the first night of contemporary art auctions that grossed ...

Francis Bacon, Portrait of Man with Glasses III, 1963; estimate: £6-9 million. Courtesy Christie's The painting’s deeply expressive composition presents a man’s face in a state of violent ...

Tonight, Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" (1969) broke the world auction record and realized $142,405,000 at Christie's Tuesday night Post-War and Contemporary auction at Manhattan's ...