The Christie's Postwar and Contemporary art auction is set for next Tuesday, but WSJ video was given an exclusive tour of the showroom. On the auction block is a rare Francis Bacon triptych that ...

The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits is like a gut punch. Triptych May-June 1973 is atypical of the artist’s work in that it ...

This is the story of an extraordinary project, born of perestroika and glasnost, which challenged Soviet views on art and ... Francis Bacon: Study for a Self-Portrait – Triptych (1985-6).