Frank Auerbach, cigarette in the corner of his mouth like a doomed hero in a French film, fires up Francis Bacon. Michael Andrews stares down at his lap. Lucian Freud pulls away from Timothy Behrens, ...

A Francis Bacon painting of Lucian Freud has sold for £43.4 million on its auction debut, making it the most valuable single panel piece by the artist, according to Sotheby’s. Titled Study For ...

The author on his new book about photographer John Deakin, being at ease in his 80s – and walking amid London’s fast-moving ...

Francis Bacon: Head VI (1949 ... Bacon’s fellow artist, Lucian Freud. But Moscow did get one of Bacon’s famous "Screaming Popes" – Head VI (1949), a nightmare image based on Velazquez ...

When it was first unveiled in 1953 Francis Bacon’s painting Two Figures shocked ... for just £100 to his former friend, the painter Lucian Freud, just months after completing the work.

“It is hard to think of two greater artists whose lives and works are so interwoven into the fabric of our consciousness than Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. “At the same time both muses and ...

Lucian Freud ... psychologist Sigmund Freud. In 1933, he moved with his family to London to escape the persecution of Jews by the Nazi regime. He went on to study at the Central School of Art and ...

Hugh Bredin, who has died aged 89, was a croquet player, jazz fan, author, illustrator, pen-and-ink cartoonist, contributor ...

I’ve always been aware of the history of people who went into Soho and never came back Did you ever meet Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud? And who do you regard as the greater artist? I never did ...