Francis Bacon
“Dear Ronnie”: letter from Bacon in Kray sale
The auction took place on 26th January
Bacon show for Zhukova and Abramovich's CCC Moscow
Having set a record for the artist at auction, the collectors put the art to work
Contemporary sales, London: Phillips struggles in bid to lead auction week
But Bacon brings profitable business to Christie’s and Sotheby’s
Francis Bacon claims his place at the top of the market
As Tate Britain opens a major travelling retrospective, we examine the factors underpinning the meteoric rise in prices for the artist’s work and reveal the identity of his biggest collectors
British Art Auction report: The Bacon and Freud effect
Recent record prices for the two artists boosted results for 20th-century British works, while Victorian art struggled
Roman Abramovich brings home the $86.3m Bacon and the $33.6m Freud
The London-based Russian billionaire has bought the record-breaking works; he has not previously been known to collect art
Portrait of Bacon’s lover to be auctioned
Isabel Rawsthorne diptych on the block at Sotheby's
RCA to sell Bacon as part of fundraising campaign
Proceeds will go towards new campus in Battersea
Bacon “rubbish” including sketches and diaries makes £1m at auction
An alternative end for the rubbish that was to be thrown out from Bacon’s famously chaotic studio at 7 Reese Mews in London
Rediscovered Bacon “rubbish” could fetch £50,000
Documents and paintings will be sold at a country auction
Books: The life, times and conversation of Maggi Hambling, “the female Francis Bacon”
The first chart of Hambling’s extraordinary 60 years
Author chosen for Bacon catalogue
Diplomacy will be required to deal with warring factions
No simple explanation of Bacon's works to be found in his sources, as explained by Bacon authority Martin Harrison
Not least due to the flawed description of the contents of the artist’s studio
A solution found to Tehran's controversial Bacon triptych
Getting minds out of the gutter - despite Bacon's wishes to be there himself
Two Bacons may share more than an interest in portraiture
See for yourself as Sir Nathaniel Bacon and Francis Bacon go on show in London
Interview with Ambassador Tuttle and Mrs Tuttle: His favourite artist is Francis Bacon, hers is Agnes Martin
The new US ambassador and his wife on a marriage spent collecting
Books: Sutherland and Bacon, a story of friends disuniting
Graham Sutherland and Francis Bacon compared and contrasted
Arts on television: Bacon and Hirst as the bad boys of British art
Damien Hirst has carried on Francis Bacon’s violent legacy of “guts, blood and spunk”, but denies any direct inspiration
Books: Francis Bacon’s passion for the camera
This is the first study of the painter’s use of photography
Bacon Estate forces Musée Picasso to banish Joule material to basement
The drawings will also be in their own catalogue, separate to the rest of the exhibition
Contemporary auction sales report: British art makes the great leap
Bacon and Auerbach triumphed as Sotheby’s and Christie’s racked up impressive totals
Francis Giacobetti interviews Francis Bacon: “I painted to be loved”
The last summing up, two months before he died, by the greatest Irish painter of the 20th century in an interview with the photographer Francis Giacobetti
Francis Bacon’s heir dies
Solicitors for John Edwards’ estate deny that his lover has inherited the art