The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

With its first-ever Bacon show, the gallery plans to make 'a real splash with a major British artist'

The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

Bacon believed the Dutch artist deformed reality “to make it more real”

A highlight of Sotheby's May evening sales, Bacon's first full-scale painting of George Dyer was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2022

Andy Warhol the colourist stars in a stand-out exhibition that offers fresh perspectives on curating the world's most familiar artist

Velázquez masterpiece required 'conservation treatment to minor damage sustained to the painting surface, and the fitting of new glazing' following hammer attack on 6 November

Artex, the latest in a slew of new initiatives, is offering shares in a Francis Bacon triptych for as little as $100—but is it a good investment?

“There must be no changes to an artist’s original work when he is dead for any reason whatsoever,” Bacon said

A previous group of 11 works from Newhouse's collection brought in $216.2m across two Christie's sales in 2019

Marlborough is offering work by the artist for $30m, while Skarstedt has earlier painting available for $15m

The show will feature works by Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews and the photographer Bruce Bernard

Barry Joule disputes gallery’s claim that trove of sketches and documents, which he donated, was "unsuitable for retention"

A firsthand encounter with the Spanish artist's portrait of Pope Innocent X in Rome puts the later interpretations in perspective

Plus, US photographer of queer women, Alice Austen; and Michel Majerus at Art Basel

Work from a private European collection fuels the market for the blue-chip artist

A thousand documents and sketches from the Barry Joule collection to be deaccessioned by London museum over attribution doubts

Sinister besuited figure, painted in Monaco in 1946, was only recently rediscovered

Our pick of highlights from forthcoming auctions and fairs

Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco

Though known for his louche Soho lifestyle, the artist had roots in the countryside and an interest in animal instinct

Image taken at Neue Nationalgalerie moments before the 1988 theft features in a new book of the artist’s copper paintings

The artist seen from varied perspectives on his work and influences

All you ever wanted to know about the artist, from a deep dive into his chaotic studio to accounts of his exploits in seedy Soho—selected by the art historian Michael Peppiatt

From the catalogue for a controversial Guston show to a four-volume tome on Leonardo Da Vinci—and some lighter reads too

From Leonardo to Bacon, take your pick from a selection of essential texts on leading artists

The exhibition Francis Bacon: Man and Beast at the Royal Academy of Arts in London next year will include the artist's final work—a painting of a bull

As the coronavirus crisis stretches on, we look at how artists have captured confinement in recent history and what is being done now