The Latest Breaking News from Francis Bacon

Christie’s record-breaking collection set to sell for up to £126.7m

Monsoon: The Peter Simon Collection will be offered in three dedicated sales in October.

The Independent UK · Sep 9

Buggers review – phenomenal flesh and blood portrait of Francis Bacon and George Dyer

The painter and his lover are played with real intensity by Alistair Hall and Peter Clements, in a visceral psychodrama of contained violence and sadness

The Guardian - UK · Aug 12

Plutarch’s ancient advice for how to be happier online

For many centuries, the writings of Plutarch of Chaeronia (c.46-119CE) were at the heart of elite humanistic education in the West. We can see the influence of his Lives of Eminent Greeks and Romans and the philosophical essays in his work Moralia in early modern authors from Michel de Montaigne…

The Conversation · Jul 8

Collection including masterpieces by Klimt and Schiele to fetch ‘up to £150m’ at auction

Collection comes from Joe Lewis and his daughter Vivienne, whose family owns Tottenham Hotspur

The Independent UK · Apr 30

Masterpieces by Klimt, Matisse and Freud set for London’s most valuable auction

Sotheby’s said collection of billionaire Spurs’ owner Joe Lewis and daughter Vivienne expected to fetch more than £150m in June sale

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30

Euphoria, Francis Bacon and more: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Zendaya returns for the third season of young adult drama Euphoria, while a fascinating new French exhibition studies Francis Bacon's later works. Here's what to keep an eye out for this week.

Euronews · Apr 6

Frank Bowling: Seeking the Sublime review – shipwrecked Ophelia points the path to freedom

This illuminating exhibition traces the British Guyanese artist’s faltering first steps of painting with a social conscience to his escape from London to New York and abstraction

The Guardian - UK · Mar 26

A tech billionaire’s lecture on the Antichrist has become one of the hottest tickets in Rome

Discussion of the Antichrist by a tech billionaire in the Vatican’s backyard has proven divisive

The Independent UK · Mar 12

Tracey Emin: A Second Life – Tate Modern’s must-see retrospective explores trauma and transcendence

The most powerful art speaks of and to the emotions. It tackles trauma and cathartically helps us to cope with it. It acknowledges pain, suffering and betrayal. It goes beyond an aestheticised veneer to raw emotion. It seeks to touch not just the eyes, but the soul.

The Conversation · Feb 27

London Art Fair 2026: Plenty of art, but none of the fun of the fair

2/5 The prices are genuinely affordable, but the promotional crowing about Francis Bacon is almost comic

Evening Standard · Jan 22