London artists Tracey Emin, Gary Hume and Gillian Wearing play bit-parts

The case is particularly difficult given the scarcity of drawings by the artist

Bringing home Bacon—again

The recent biographies of these art-world giants promise much but aside from anecdotes little is shown of the subjects’ inner lives

Europe’s grandest modern art fair will be bigger than ever this year, with collectors and museum curators from all over the world

David Sylvester’s comprehensive survey includes works which Bacon himself tried to destroy

An Italian designer and considerable use of natural light for David Sylvester’s new survey of nearly ninety paintings, which includes working studies never previously exhibited

The National Gallery will display Portrait of Pope Innocent X with Bacon's reinterpretations

Retrospective on until 14 July

Bacon, Kitaj, Warhol and Richter attract keen competition

Despite lukewarm predictions and no blockbuster items there was increased buyer confidence

This year marks a comeback, but there is still room for improvement

Two new galleries and Karsten Schubert has moved

Farson's biography of the tortured artist is a pub crawl around Fifties Soho

David Sylvester curates an exhibition of the artist's finest works in Napoleonic rooms

Lugano makes attempt to compensate for losing best of the Thyssen collection

From Bacon, to Bacchus

“Pathos means longing; yes, longing and feeling that wonderful things are possible but not really happening”

“The museum is like a voodoo fetish, the artist a sorcerer but also a prisoner”

Bequest of modern paintings and sculpture to tour American cities

Francis Bacon’s “Pope” fetches top price at Sotheby’s