| Francis Bacon claims his place at the top of the market (Art Newspaper) |
| The Bacon estate is believed to be selling this 1987 Triptych for $65m. It goes on display at Tate this month as part of the gallery’s retrospective. Credit: The Estate of Francis Bacon Courtesy of Faggionato Fine Arts Photo credit: Prudence Cuming © Estate of Francis Bacon. |
| 08/29/2008 |
| Francis Bacon: A brush with Bacon (Independent) |
| The first celebrated Francis Bacon was born in the Strand, during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was raised as an English gentleman, and wrote elegant essays upon morality, taste, public virtue and private manners. The second, a descendant of the first, was born in a nursing home in Dublin to English parents, and became a self-taught painter whose canvases, when they were first widely shown in ... |
| 08/28/2008 |
| The power and the passion (Guardian Unlimited) |
| Francis Bacon, one of our greatest modern artists, was a man of bewildering contradictions - he made high art but embraced lowlife; he could be disarmingly kind but utterly cruel; he had loving affairs but craved casual, anonymous sex. |
| 08/09/2008 |
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