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
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
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
30 March 2023 • Mark Westall
Opening in June 2023, Capturing the Moment will explore the dynamic relationship between contemporary painting and photography.
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.
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
4 April 2022 • Tabish Khan
Destruction, revisiting art history, augmented reality, Bacon and charred wood.
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
23 February 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Royal Academy’s ‘Man and Beast’ offers the chance to see many prime paintings by Bacon
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
14 July 2019 • Tabish Khan
Migration, couples, razor blades, a naked mole rat, swirls, demons and mirrors.
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.
21 July 2017 • Mark Westall
Spanish police have recovered 3 of 5 paintings by Francis Bacon, stolen in 2015. The 5 works by Bacon are estimated to be worth more than £22 million
12 February 2017 • Tabish Khan
A trippy tunnel, Bacon and Freud, Paris underground, contemporary Georgian and a starship trooper.
4 January 2017 • Paul Carey-Kent
Were there an Olympics for sports and games in art, I could imagine table tennis, chess and football as medallists. Cricket is a rarer presence, partly I suppose due to its limited geographical scope, so the yet narrower history of cricket pads in art, rather than mere genre paintings or celebratory statues of cricketers wearing them, is less than extensive.
2 October 2016 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
Brit badboy Bacon’s Spanish and French influences on show in Bilbao
