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Doom, gloom and Damien Hirst

03.12.09
Damien Hirst's paintings so far feel like a gigantic backwards step. To use Bacon’s term, they really don’t work.... more

The sado-masochistic relationships that drove Bacon to create his best works

23.11.09
Francis Bacon was once thrown through a plate-glass window by an enraged lover, damaging his face so badly that his right eye had to be sewn back into place, according to a biographer... more

Ivor Braka: a rock 'n' roll art dealer

23.10.09
By day, he sells work by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud for millions of pounds; by night, he parties with Jerry Hall and Stella McCartney. Godfrey Barker meets Ivor Braka, London's favourite rebel aesthete... more

Stop it, Damien Hirst, you're embarrassing yourself

15.10.09
Damien Hirst is nearing his half-century and should have a far higher level of skill than the rough daubing he shows in No Love Lost... more

It's the US that has hacked into our system

03.08.09
Should Gary McKinnon be extradited?” is the question we are all invited to consider. The only conclusion to be reached is: “no”. But what we think doesn’t have much bearing on the matter, does it? ... more

Rare Bacon is set to fetch £6m

05.02.09
A Francis Bacon painting bought for £31,500 nearly 40 years ago has gone on public show before an auction where it is expected to fetch up to £6 million... more

Bacon bought in 1971 to fetch £6m

14.01.09
A painting by Francis Bacon bought for £31,500 nearly 40 years ago is returning to the market with an estimate of up to £6million... more

Freud's portrait of Bacon only makes low estimate of £5.4m

20.10.08
The last surviving portrait of Francis Bacon by his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud has failed to reach its upper estimate at auction... more

Don't miss these London events

20.10.08
From Francis Bacon and the Turner prize to wildlife photography, here are the must-see and must-do things on this autumn.... more

Freud portrait of Bacon set to sell for £7m

14.10.08
A portrait by Lucian Freud of his good friend Francis Bacon goes on show in London tomorrow for the first time in decades... more

Now for a real art prize

12.09.08
City sponsors have created just what contemporary art needs – the Threadneedle Figurative Prize. Brian Sewell explains more.... more

Drink has done for the bar where I met Bacon

09.09.08
I have mixed feelings about the threatened closure of the Colony Room Club in Soho, which comes in the same week that a major exhibition of its most famous member — Francis Bacon — opens at Tate Britain... more

Francis Bacon triptych at the Tate

09.09.08
You might not be able to pay £43 million to own a Francis Bacon triptych, but you can go and see what one looks like at the Tate... more

The Francis Bacon I Knew

05.09.08
As Tate Britain's retrospective opens, our critic recalls an artist who perfectly mirrored the spirit of his age.... more

Boom for Bacon and Freud

19.05.08
A Lucian Freud masterpiece featuring a nude on a tattered sofa and a previously unseen Francis Bacon triptych are together expected to make more than £25 million at auction... more

Canterbury Cathedral is falling down

16.05.08
For the price of a couple of Francis Bacons one of our greatest churches could be saved for another millennium, says Brian Sewell.... more

Bacon hailed the new Picasso as triptych sets £43m record

15.05.08
A Francis Bacon masterpiece has sold for £43 million, smashing the record price for a contemporary artwork... more

Sotheby's auction smashes art record

28.02.08
Sotheby's is celebrating a record-breaking auction which saw artwork from Francis Bacon to Gilbert and George total more than £95 million... more

Big art month kicks off with £100m auction

05.02.08
Paintings worth more than £100 million have been sold at auction on the first day of London's most expensive month of art sales.... more

Bacon's £9m 'rent cheque' for sale

03.09.07
A painting given to the Royal College of Art by Francis Bacon after it offered him studio space almost 40 years ago is to be sold at auction for an estimated £9 million.... more

So whodunit, Will?

03.09.07
I Am Shakespeare is the best acted, funniest and least patronising bit of Theatre in Education you'll ever see, says Kieron Quirke.... more

Hirst tops all living artists

22.06.07
The sale of a vibrantly coloured pill cabinet gave Damien Hirst the title of world's most expensive living artist... more

Bacon's art sells for £1m after 30 years in attic

25.04.07
Unwanted clutter Francis Bacon tried to throw out from his notoriously untidy London studio fetched more than £1 million at auction.... more

£125m worth of masterpieces go on show

18.04.07
The most expensive post-war painting to come to auction is among £125 million worth of art going on show in London.... more

Bacon's studio 'junk' now worth a fortune

20.03.07
When a friend offered to take Francis Bacon's studio "junk" off his hands in 1978 he took it home and stored it in his attic. Now the unwanted clutter could now be worth £500,000.... more

£14m Bacon sale crowns record auction week

09.02.07
An American art dealer helped send art records tumbling yet again when he paid £14 million for a Francis Bacon painting at Christie's.... more

Sotheby's reveals £150m lot

31.01.07
Sotheby's has unveiled a remarkable collection of Impressionist and modern art that it expects to sell for £150 million next week.... more

Bacon's brooding Pope to smash auction records

08.01.07
The late Francis Bacon's 1956 painting Study For Portrait II, which depicts a Pope, is expected to fetch £12 million at auction next month. ... more

Bacon's addict painting sets £7.9m record

15.11.06
A shocking Francis Bacon painting depicting a female nude apparently in a drugged stupor has sold for £7.9million, an auction world record for a work by the British artist.... more

£6m to bring home slice of Bacon

28.09.06
A picture of one of Francis Bacon's female friends lying in a drug-addled stupor is expected to fetch more than £6 million when it goes on sale at Sotheby's in New York.... more

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