Francis Bacon
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Bacon and Auerbach triumphed as Sotheby’s and Christie’s racked up impressive totals
The last summing up, two months before he died, by the greatest Irish painter of the 20th century in an interview with the photographer Francis Giacobetti
Solicitors for John Edwards’ estate deny that his lover has inherited the art
Problematic Warhols hinder Christie’s but Sotheby’s sparkles with Richter Riley, Barceló and Flanaghan
Fondation Vincent van Gogh assembles the surviving paintings in this series
Record prices for Andreas Gursky, Peter Doig, Luciano Fabro and Douglas Gordon
No evidence of blackmail, and video shows the artist satisfied with his gallery
Inside 7 Reece Mews
Francis Bacon’s studio (Thames & Hudson, London, 2001), 129 pp, 60 col. ills £14.95 (hb) ISBN 0500510342.
A poster campaign has been launched to recover the work which disappeared from the Neue Nationalgalerie
Litigation may reveal the operations of one of London’s leading galleries and its Liechtenstein subsidiary
Bacon lithographs at Coskun, Euan Uglow at Browse and Darby and Albers at Waddingtons
Tate lends Bacon works on paper for comparison with disputed works but comparative photos of Tate works are not allowed
Bacon executor denies parallels with its own case
A second exhibition of Barry Joule’s collection, left to him by Francis Bacon his former neighbour, is still a matter of dispute with the Bacon Estate
David Sylvester reevaluates violence
Artist allegedly exploited and heir denied his inheritance
The drawings will be displayed as “attributed to F. Bacon”
The Joule archive drawings continue to cause contention
Richardson talks about his mentor and one time lover, Douglas Cooper—fiendish and funny art historian, aesthete and champion of Cubism
The new sole executor of Bacon's estate talks in his first public interview about the teams of lawyers now working to see that the artist’s beneficiary, John Edwards, receives precisely what Francis intended him to receive. And that is everything
The Tate unveils its previously unknown Bacon drawings to the world while two US museums present new views of the blockbuster British artist
Mammon’s shrine in the groves of academe
The exhibition notably shuns the Marlborough gallery, which represented the artist throughout his life
Komar and Melamid reveal what we like, Tory politician Jeffrey Archer speculates in Warhols, fictional Bacon somewhat censored, and Britain’s own intellectual, Jonathan Miller, on reflection
The relationship between painting and physiognomy explored in Milan, from Da Vinci to Bacon