On the auction block is a rare Francis Bacon triptych that could be the most expensive painting ever auctioned.

There’s a limit to how much you can say about Francis ... heads triptych (flanked by broken images of his recently deceased lover Peter Lacy) shows any bruising, angry insight, Bacon’s face ...

Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory and Head of the School of the Arts, University of Hull In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis ... Triptych May-June, 1973 where we see Bacon ...

A Francis Bacon painting valued at ... The record price paid for a Bacon at auction was $142m (£89m) for a triptych depicting of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud, which was sold in ...

The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits is like a gut punch.

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis ... faces, Bacon makes his presence felt throughout the exhibition. He makes himself known in other ways, too, like his superimposed presence onto ...