If the 21st century brought Bacon retrospective acclaim as the greatest British artist of his time, it also gave him perhaps too much acceptance and familiarity. Thirty-two years on from Bacon’s ...

Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a 1969 triptych painting by artist Francis Bacon, was sold for a record $142.4 million Tuesday night at Christie's in Manhattan. It's now "the most expensive artwork ...

Inside a nearby storefront was a temporary outpost of the Children's Healing Art Project, also known as CHAP. The day's honoree -- Bacon Boy -- is a special figure in the history of CHAP ...

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 ...

To get one, go to the subscriptions page. Peggy Bacon was enrolled at the Art Students League in New York when she discovered drypoint, but not because she took a class on the printmaking technique.