French writer Yves Peyré has published new information about his artist friend in a recent monograph. English painter Francis Bacon, January 1984. Photo: Ulf Andersen/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images.

Titled Francis Bacon or the Measure of Excess, the expansive book is penned by Bacon’s close friend Yves Peyré who relays insights into the late figurative artist’s career from his early ...

Attention all Francis Bacon fans: in April 2016, the artist’s estate will publish Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, the first comprehensive catalog of his oeuvre. The book, which has been in ...

Francis Bacon, “Triptych” (1991), oil on canvas, three panels, each panel: 78 x 58 1/8 inches (The Museum of Modern Art, New York William A. M. Burden Fund and Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest ...

Mr. Peppiatt, who was friends with Bacon for 30 years before the artist’s death in 1992, developed the exhibition after noticing that the artist’s oeuvre, famous for its depictions of the ...

The painting, worth an estimated €5 million ($5.4 million), was one of five by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon that was stolen during a robbery in July 2015.

There’s something very curious about the Francis Bacon painting that is slated to go up for auction at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening sale on November 14. First of all, it’s terrible.

John Edwards, 53, who was the artist Francis Bacon's closest friend for 18 years and heir to his paintings and property, died Tuesday in Bangkok of lung cancer.