Saatchi Yates present a monumental Summer exhibition, ‘Once Upon a Time in London’.
10 June 2025 • Mark Westall
The exhibition is a celebration of London, its artists and institutions,
Tag: Francis Bacon
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see over the Festive Season
20 December 2024 • Tabish Khan
Monet, Bacon, a dance floor, gold and Mars
Changing Bodies: Francis Bacon’s ‘Human Presence” at National Portrait Gallery
2 December 2024 • Jasper Spires
The paintings of Francis Bacon have never failed to provoke a sense of unease. Exhibited currently in the National Portrait… Read More
National Portrait Gallery to open major Francis Bacon Portrait Exhibition.
18 July 2024 • Mark Westall
Francis Bacon: Human Presence will be the first exhibition in nearly 20 years to place its focus on the artist’s portraits.
Francis Bacon’s portrait of George Dyer to star at Sotheby’s, estimate -$30-$50 million
21 March 2024 • Mark Westall
This May, Sotheby’s will offer Francis Bacon’s 1966 Portrait of George Dyer Crouching – the first from a critical cycle of 10… Read More
Francis Bacon’s Masterpiece ‘Figure in Movement’ to Highlight 20th Century Evening
4 October 2023 • Mark Westall
Christie’s to present Figure in Movement, a masterwork by Francis Bacon at its 20th Century Evening Sale taking place on November 9th, 2023, at… Read More
ARTEX unveils $55 million Bacon triptych as world’s first ‘art IPO’ at the V&A.
1 June 2023 • George Nelson
The new stock exchange, which offers anyone the chance to trade shares of masterpiece paintings, is on a mission to… Read More
Warhol, Doig, Bacon, Richter & Gursky in New exhibition exploring the dynamic relationship between contemporary painting and photography
30 March 2023 • Mark Westall
Opening in June 2023, Capturing the Moment will explore the dynamic relationship between contemporary painting and photography.
Gagosian opens Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews
17 November 2022 • Mark Westall
Gagosian to open Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews at the gallery’s Grosvenor Hill location in London.
The Top 5 Museum Exhibitions to see in London: Spring 2022
11 April 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see right now in museums and institutional art galleries. Each one comes with a… Read More
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in Mayfair
4 April 2022 • Tabish Khan
Destruction, revisiting art history, augmented reality, Bacon and charred wood.
Francis Bacon’s First Pope to be unveiled in London exhibition.
7 March 2022 • Mark Westall
Gagosian to exhibit Francis Bacon’s first treatment of the papal image—a subject that would preoccupy the artist on and off… Read More
In the Shadows of Bacon
23 February 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Royal Academy’s ‘Man and Beast’ offers the chance to see many prime paintings by Bacon
The Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in Mayfair and Fitzrovia
30 January 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite exhibitions to see this month – this time they’re all located close to each other… Read More
Francis Bacon ‘Man and Beast’ at the Royal Academy of Arts
29 January 2022 • Lee Sharrock
For the first time in a decade, a major retrospective of paintings by 20th Century master Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is on display in London.
Francis Bacon’s ‘Pope with Owls’ estimate $35-45 Million to lead Phillips’ Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art.
28 October 2021 • Mark Westall
On 17th November, Phillips will offer Francis Bacon’s ‘Pope with Owls’as the star lot of the New York Evening Sale of 20th… Read More
The Royal Academy of Arts to present Francis Bacon: Man and Beast.
13 October 2021 • Mark Westall
In January 2022, the Royal Academy of Arts will present Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, the first exhibition to chart… Read More
11 Art exhibitions to get excited about in 2021
4 January 2021 • Mark Westall
What a year 2020 was! Glad to get that over but seems like the beginning of 2021 is going to… Read More
Watch Francis Bacon talking about his art in this 1965 interview
4 September 2020 • Mark Westall
This week the RA announced details of their upcoming Francis Bacon exhibition. So we thought at FAD TV we would bring you this 1965 BBC video interview of Francis Bacon.
Francis Bacon: Man and Beast
3 September 2020 • Mark Westall
In January 2021, the Royal Academy of Arts will present Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, the first exhibition to chart the development of the artist’s work through the lens of his fascination with animals and its impact on his treatment of the human figure.
Watch Damien Hirst talking about Francis Bacon
3 July 2020 • Mark Westall
Here is the first video of a new occasional series of found video gems of the world wide web which we are calling FAD TV up first Damien Hirst talking about Francis Bacon
Surprises from Art UK
1 July 2020 • Paul Carey-Kent
Art UK is the online home for every public art collection in the UK, recently represented to make 250,000 works easily searchable with a facility to curate your own show. Faced with so many options, I took took the simple approach of looking for less usual examples from some of my favourite C20th artists.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this Summer
14 July 2019 • Tabish Khan
Migration, couples, razor blades, a naked mole rat, swirls, demons and mirrors.
A new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s double-figure paintings
9 May 2019 • Mark Westall
Gagosian is to present Couplings, an exhibition of Francis Bacon’s double-figure paintings. Bacon’s disturbing images—his portrayals of friends and fellow artists, and the deformations and stylistic distortions of classical subjects—radically altered the genre of figurative painting in the twentieth century.