were included in a 1955 Museum of Modern Art exhibition of European artists, the British painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) said, “I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed ...

Francis Bacon (b. 1909). Painting, 1946. On view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (Estate of Francis Bacon; DACS; ARS) Warning: This graphic requires ...

A Francis Bacon painting is set to be auctioned off later this month, The portrait of Lucian Freud is expected to go for over £35 million on June 29 during a live-streamed auction.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- There's a new record-setting piece of art. A 1969 painting by Francis Bacon set a world record for most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. "Three Studies of Lucian ...

A 1963 three-panel oil painting by Francis Bacon is set to become the first artwork ever taken public. Francis Bacon’s ‘Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer’. Philip Toscano/PA Images ...

A Francis Bacon series of paintings of legendary Soho 50s beauty Henrietta Moraes sells for £24.3million. The paintings were the highest value work sold in a Frieze season auction in the last 10 ...

Spanish police have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Francis Bacon stolen in 2015. The painting, titled "Study for Portrait of José Capelo," is valued at $5.4 million. It was recovered ...

Spanish police said on Thursday they had recovered a painting by the late Irish-born British figurative artist Francis Bacon, worth an estimated €5 million ($5.42 million), and one of five ...

What would the late painter Francis Bacon make of it all? A portrait of his lover is about to make its stock-market debut, giving the average Joe access to the rarefied world of serious art ...