In 1985, a 15-year-old Christopher Nolan was on a school trip to London’s Tate Britain when a poster caught his eye. It’s easy to see why. A streaked, shifting face hangs in darkness, its expression ...
It took nearly 20 minutes and more than 20 bids between several specialists on the phone and a bidder in the room, but ...
“The market really hit the autumn season head-on with that incredible energy,” Tom Eddison, Sotheby’s co-head of contemporary ...
A rare portrait by celebrated painter Francis Bacon sold for £43.4 million ($52.8 million) at Sotheby’s London on Wednesday, the first time the artwork has been auctioned in its almost six-decade ...
The now separate paintings, ‘Portrait of a Dwarf’ and ‘Two Figures’, were once part of the same work
Francis Bacon’s famous 1975 work, Portrait of a Dwarf, goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s London next month (16 October) with an estimate of £9m. The work was initially part of a bigger piece ...
LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - A dark Francis Bacon painting of a screaming pope, said to be the earliest in his series of papal depictions, went on display in London on Tuesday, the first time the ...
Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory and Head of the School of the Arts, University of Hull In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come as a monumental shock. The ...
When I ask Marinello what is principally being stolen these days, he laughs and booms: “Gold, gold, gold!” With the price of ...
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