In 2013, Time Magazine asked the Wheaton-based artist to paint Pope Francis. The portrait would grace the cover of “The Person of the Year’ issue. “In a weird way, ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint portraits. At least, not in any conventional sense.

A portrait by British painter Francis Bacon will be publicly listed this summer, giving investors the ability to buy and sell shares in an artwork on a stock exchange for the first time.

The coffin containing the body of the late Pope Francis is carried to St. Peter’s Basilica during a procession, on the day of the translation of his body, at the Vatican, April 23, 2025.

Francis Bacon, Portrait of George Dyer Talking, (1966). Andrew Cowie/AFP via Getty Images. The portrait was also displayed during Bacon’s 1966 solo show at Paris’s Galerie Maeght, and more ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint portraits. At least, not in any conventional sense.

Francis Bacon, “Portrait of George Dyer Crouching” (1966), oil on canvas, 78 x 58 inches (all images courtesy Sotheby’s) Since his emergence in the 1940s, painter Francis Bacon has been ...

In 2013, Time Magazine asked the Wheaton-based artist to paint Pope Francis. The portrait would grace the cover of “The Person of the Year’ issue. “In a weird way, when I saw that he passed ...