Francis Bacon
British | 1909 - 1992
Francis Bacon was a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1909. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museu Nacional d`Art de Catalunya have featured Francis Bacon's work in the past.Francis Bacon's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 20 USD to 142,405,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 142,405,000 USD for 3 Works: Studies of Lucian Freud, sold at Christie's New York in 2013. Francis Bacon has been featured in articles for ArtLyst, The Art Newspaper and ARTnews. The most recent article is How Do Artists See Themselves? written for Hyperallergic in April 2024. The artist died in 1992.
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An aspiring artist hung her own painting at a museum show and later sold the work at auction. Not all have been so lucky.
Self-portraits by Van Gogh, Francis Bacon, and more explore not just how these artists saw the world but also what “selfie” culture says about us.
Francis Bacon’s monumental single portrait of George Dyer, his celebrated muse and lover, marks a significant moment in the annals of Bacon’s career. This May, the painting is poised to realise a staggering $50 million at Sotheby’s in New York.
