Francis Bacon, the Irish-born artist known ... 2014 and stands as Bacon’s most valuable single-panel portrait. The artist’s ...
A cornucopia is up for auction, and will soon dip out of view, sequestered in salons and locked in living rooms.
A Francis Bacon painting which ... Titled Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud, it was painted by British artist Bacon in 1964 and based on a photograph of his fellow art contemporary Freud, taken ...
Leading artists including Grayson Perry, Jenny Saville, Veronica Ryan and Maggi Hambling are amongst those who have donated ...
This roundup of the most expensive lots at auction around the world in March ... with some names appearing more than once, like Francis Bacon and Claude Monet. Christie’s and Sotheby’s roughly ...
Titled Study For Portrait Of Lucian Freud ... Sotheby’s said the painting has set a series of auction records (The Estate of Francis Bacon/DACSArtimage 2021/PA) Sotheby’s stated that aside ...
Yet, several studies for the work survived including one the auction ... a portrait.” At the time Sutherland was commissioned he was a popular British artist, even “eclipsing Francis Bacon ...
Art critic Peppiatt (Francis Bacon) excerpts documents ... wealth of material obscures some gems, the intimate portrait that emerges—of Bacon apologetic over drunken escapades, occasionally ...
Note: This was made after the right panel of the triptych Three studies for a portrait of John Edwards, 1984. John Edwards was Francis Bacon's closest friend for 18 years, and inherited the artist's ...
It all started with auctions. Since the late 1970s ... At Sotheby’s, the 1966 “Portrait of George Dyer Crouching” by Francis ...
A Francis Bacon painting of Lucian Freud has sold for £43.4 million on its auction debut ... Titled Study For Portrait Of Lucian Freud, it has not been seen publicly for nearly six decades ...