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A drawing entitled "Bajar Rinendo (They Go Down Quarreling) by Spanish artist Goya, on display during a sale at Christie's auction house in London onJuly 8. It sold for $4.6 million.Sang Tan / APMost popular Most viewed Top rated Most e-mailedupdated 6:51 p.m. ET July 8, 2008LONDON - Three sketches by Goya, presumed lost for 130 years, sold Tuesday for $8 million.Christies says the sketches first went up for sale in Paris in 1877 and were presumed lost until a private... (MSNBC -- News)
3 artists get creative aboard vomit comet Jul 13, 2008
A free-floating Azam, meanwhile, finished pre-prepared paintings of disembodied figures inspired by the artist Francis Bacon. Azam said he wanted to pay homage to Bacon's paintings. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Painter completes zero-G artwork Jul 13, 2008
" Expedition The painter plans to display his works, entitled Homage to Francis Bacon, at the County Hall gallery in central London where he is artist-in-residence. The prospect of the pieces fetching a sky-high price, however, has not enticed him to put them on the market. Azam, who until recently was chief operating officer at investment bank Merrill Lynch, said he is contemplating a follow-up expedition to Antarctica. "But that would be a much longer trip," he adds. "I don't know if we'd be... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'Outstanding' art to be displayed Jul 8, 2008
A collection of important works by artists including Francis Bacon and Claude Monet are to go on display to the public for the first time. The art was left to Tate Britain and the National Gallery by collector Simon Sainsbury, who died in 2006. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Art in space Jul 8, 2008
While in zero gravity Azam will complete two large triptychs he has been preparing in his north London studio, called Homage to Francis Bacon. Each one of the six paintings will be 160x120cm. (BBC News -- Science)
Buyers lap up paintings worth $1.1 bn Jul 7, 2008
Its all about presentation , marketing and getting the estimates right, said London dealer Gerard Faggionato, who represents the Francis Bacon Estate. Sothebys were also selling more classic material. (India Times)
U2's studio Basquiat sells for 5m Jul 3, 2008
A 1967 Francis Bacon portrait, Study for Head of George Dyer, was also in the sale. The painting, described by Sotheby's as an "exceptionally rare, intimate" depiction of the love of Bacon's life, went for 13. (Independent)
Entertainment Report Jul 2, 2008
London - A rare set of three works by painter Francis Bacon was sold Monday by Christie's auction house for $34. 5 million. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
In exhibit devoted to meat, some offerings are a cut above Jul 2, 2008
"Flesh and meat are life," said the great, dark British painter Francis Bacon. "If I paint red meat as I paint bodies, it is just because I find it very beautiful.". (Boston Globe)
* Francis Bacon triptych tops the lots at London art auction Jul 2, 2008
Francis Bacon triptych tops the lots at London art auction. Works by Francis Bacon, Jeff Koons and Lucian Freud were the highlights of a post-war and contemporary art sale held by Christies this week ... The three panels of Francis Bacons Triptych, 1976, which set the sales record for the artists work in May. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
One-trick pony Jul 1, 2008
His art in-jokes are blunderingly artless; witness the latest works in which he has introduced porn into several de Kooning nudes and ended up with Francis Bacon instead. All of which puts an unusual pressure upon the visitor, namely the question of how long and hard to keep at it. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
How much did this Jeff Koons' sculpture fetch at auction? Jul 1, 2008
Works by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were also sold ... The sculpture was sold as part of a post-war and contemporary art sale, that included work by Francis Bacon, Gilbert and George and Lucian Freud. (BBC News -- UK)
Francis Bacon self-portraits fetch $34.5 million Jul 1, 2008
Francis Bacon self-portraits fetch $34 ... Francis Bacon self-portraits fetch $34 ... "Three Studies for a Self Portrait," a 1975 work by British artist Francis Bacon, sold at auction for $34. (MSNBC -- News)
Bacon's Somber Self-Portraits Fetch $34.5 Million at Art Auction in London Jul 1, 2008
July 1 (Bloomberg) -- A 1975 set of three self-portraits by Francis Bacon fetched 17. 3 million pounds ($34. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Copley Foundation endows UCLA chair Jun 27, 2008
His holdings include works by Christo and Francis Bacon and film costume sketches from the 1930s and '40s, often called the Golden Age of Hollywood. The endowment establishes the David C. Copley Chair for the Study of Costume Design and the David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, a first-of-its-kind hub, which, according to UCLA, will further scholarship in the field through research, coursework and a program to bring in leading professionals as visiting faculty. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The price of Monet: gone for 40m as confidence in the market stays strong Jun 25, 2008
Roman Abramovich, for example, recently spent 60m on a Lucian Freud and a Francis Bacon, and last year Sotheby's called off its sale of Mstislav Rostropovich's art collection when the Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov bought the lot for 20m ... 2m on Francis Bacon's Tripych, 1976: another record. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The Edge of Love (15) Jun 22, 2008
The Edge of Love is all the more disappointing because it's directed by John Maybury, a scion of the 1980s British avant-garde who proved his feel for London low life in his terrific drama about Francis Bacon, Love Is the Devil. Maybury's stylisation makes the film more interesting than it would have been if directed by your average British journeyman, but it finally adds up to earnest heritage romance. (Independent)
Nigeria: The Value of Philosophy Jun 20, 2008
Francis Bacon was the first philosopher who saw clearly the practical import of scientific technique as a mode of conquering nature by obeying it. Increasingly, this problem is dealt with by the various scientific and engineering disciplines. (allAfrica.com)
All's fair in love and war Jun 15, 2008
3 million) for paintings by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. send photos, videos ffs to 0424 SMS SMH (+61 424 767 764), or us. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Richard Chopping Jun 14, 2008 Interview: Matthew Bourne Jun 12, 2008 * Basel art fest ends with signs of a slowdown Jun 11, 2008 A carry-on in the kasbah Jun 9, 2008 Art.view: Bondsky Prospekt Jun 8, 2008 When viewing art, less can be more Jun 7, 2008 Cant And Wont: Theres A Big Difference Jun 6, 2008 Painted faces Jun 5, 2008 World's Largest Art Fair Opens in Switzerland Jun 5, 2008 Whatever 'design-art' is, it's thriving Jun 2, 2008 Italian Composer Sees Music in Al Gore's Film May 31, 2008 London's Victoria & Albert Museum May 26, 2008 College seminars inspire summer reading list May 24, 2008 Synecdoche, New York May 24, 2008 Bust from riverbed reveals face of Julius Caesar: archeologist May 21, 2008 Big art sales follow Rauschenberg's death May 18, 2008 Global economy faring better than widely feared, but dark clouds remain May 18, 2008 Seasonal Sales Lack Spring May 17, 2008 Sotheby's Shares Jump as Bacon Artwork Sells for Record Price May 16, 2008 Bacon painting sets new record May 16, 2008 Bacon painting goes for 86 million May 16, 2008 A cry in the mist, then death discovered May 16, 2008 Infotainment May 16, 2008 China's unaccountable eclipse: Leaving science behind May 16, 2008 Second poll likely to choose president May 16, 2008 Oh, that's the sexiest hairdo May 16, 2008 Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids' May 15, 2008 Lucian Freud nude sets new world record at auction May 15, 2008 Auctions: Bacon triptych auctioned for record $86 million May 15, 2008 Record auction price for Francis Bacon set May 15, 2008 $86 million for a Bacon triptych leads record sales at Sotheby's May 15, 2008 Contemporary art sale nets $348.26 million May 14, 2008 Our Shakespeare: A Fraud? May 12, 2008 Modern American architectural gems set for auction May 11, 2008 Art becomes luxury-brand for Asians May 6, 2008 Three's a crowd May 3, 2008 Needed: tough-love leadership May 2, 2008 Glad to be grey Apr 23, 2008 The visionary painting of an agonised soul Apr 23, 2008 Good Morning Cedar Valley -- April 22 Apr 22, 2008 'Anamorph': Blood Simple, By Kurt Loder Apr 19, 2008 Bacon's triptych expected to fetch $70 mln Apr 15, 2008 'It's lovely,' says benefits supervisor whose portrait is set to sell for £17m Apr 12, 2008 Thomas biopic to headline Edinburgh film festival Apr 11, 2008 Bacon's "Triptych" tipped to fetch $70 mln at Sotheby's Mar 25, 2008 Bacon triptych could fetch 35m Mar 25, 2008 Baryshnikov leaps behind the lens in a bold new turn Mar 24, 2008 Shadow Of The Silk Road Mar 21, 2008 Politics and Punditry: The race up until now..... Mar 9, 2008 Move over Galileo, it's Science 2.0 Mar 7, 2008 And the winner is ... Tilda Swinton? Mar 4, 2008 Credit crunch fuels investor thirst for art and wine Mar 2, 2008 Contemporary art up for sale at Sotheby Mar 2, 2008 Bacon's Arena Mar 1, 2008 How To Take Photographs of Famous People Mar 1, 2008 Bacon's Nude, Warhol Self-Portraits Star in Sotheby's, Phillips U.K. Sales Feb 26, 2008 Picture this Feb 23, 2008 Toreros are tough, and that's no bull Feb 21, 2008 The new embraceable Britain Feb 18, 2008 Talk of the Town: Love yourself for Valentine’s Day Feb 14, 2008 Art market holds steady as stocks and property wobble Feb 9, 2008 Bacon triptych brings home $58 million Feb 8, 2008 Hes got the lot Feb 8, 2008 Show of force Feb 8, 2008 What recession? Bacon sells for 26.3m Feb 7, 2008
Friends included John Minton, Roberts MacBryde and Colquhoun, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, who had a house at Wivenhoe. Pivotally, Ann Fleming saw some of Chopping's work at a Bacon exhibition in 1956, which she thought would give cachet to her husband's Bond wrappers. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Winehouse's '1m gig' for Abramovich in Moscow Jun 14, 2008
Her Moscow appearance follows reports that Mr Abramovich recently spent 60m on two paintings by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, record prices for the artists' work. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Europe)
"We'll allude to the portrait," Bourne says , "but we want to avoid getting into the supernatural too much." One idea is to have a peeling billboard which has been left up too long; another is to work some Francis Bacon references into the design. "Bacon's portraits are so brilliant," says Brotherson, "because they're a realisation of something internal as well as external.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Abramovich appeared to have stayed below his spending spree last month in New York, where he paid US$120 million at Sothebys record-breaking auction, including US$86 million for the top lot, a Francis Bacon triptych. In Basel, he bought one of Alberto Giacomettis elongated woman sculptures for a seemingly modest US$14 million, according to The Art Newspapers special Basel edition. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
But at the very end there are some superb 20th-century paintings - Richard Carline's Lebanon seen from a plane, clouds drifting like distorted figures from a Francis Bacon, Stanley Spencer's Sarajevo and David Bomberg's heat-scorched Jerusalem cityscape. Their presence is entirely specious - they couldn't be less Orientalist - but the Bomberg in particular, with its stark planar vision, verging on abstraction, shows that great art views the world most fully through the mind's eye. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Only last month, Roman Abramovich, a London-based billionaire, paid $86m for Francis Bacon s Triptych, 1976 , the highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction, and $34m for Lucian Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping , making Mr Freud the highest-selling living artist at auction. Mr Abramovich has never been known as a major buyer. (The Economist)
Jan de Baen, painting in 1672, got there with awful power three centuries ahead of Francis Bacon. Another first sight: the exceptional strength and excitement of Jan Asselijn's threatened swan, legs spread, white wings unfurled, the muscles of its chest and neck taut. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Francis Bacon, the English philosopher, said, Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us. The Apostle Paul says, I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. (Dublin Courier Herald, GA)
The portraits of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud or David Hockney are in the upper reaches of the art market, and a good Gainsborough will still be a big sale, but, in general, portraiture seems to be out of fashion. This must be a matter of regret, not only because it diminishes the importance of a profoundly important branch of painting, but because it might discourage young artists from entering the field. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Big names include several who fetched new record prices at a Sotheby's auction in New York last month, when a triptych by Francis Bacon sold for $86. 3 million, becoming the most expensive work of contemporary art ever auctioned. (Time.com)
Despite records being smashed for a Francis Bacon triptych and Lucian Freud portrait at last month's art auctions, the $15 million sale of Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House has since collapsed and other works were unsold. The New York design gallerist Murray Moss expects the upcoming design sales to be equally polarized. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Artists in general "make you see things differently, make you see things in a new light. When we see a painting by Francis Bacon or a film of Sydney Pollack, we get a very precise idea of the problems of our century," Battistelli said. He began work on the opera a year ago, and the Milan opera house La Scala plans to present it during the 2011 season as part of celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italy's unification in 1861. (Newsmax)
This exhibition features 60 works by 38 artists and explores how books have been treated by such notable names as Pablo Picasso, Damien Hirst, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Giacometti and Roy Lichenstein. The display features sculptures, manuscripts and books including Anish Kapoor's , a book sculpture in four parts. (Suite101.com)
As Francis Bacon wrote: Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested. I am talking about the third set. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
A promising first half-hour sets up the death-and-illness-obsessed lead character, Caden (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a theatre director in upstate New York, and his relationship with his four-year-old daughter and emotionally distant wife, Adele (Keener), an artist who paints what look like miniature Francis Bacon portraits. Between visiting doctors to deal with his increasingly alarming series of ailments, Caden wins a MacArthur genius grant, allowing him to go to New York and create his... (Globe and Mail)
Artworks by in-demand British artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon are scheduled to cross the block in London in June, following on the footsteps of recent record-setting sales in New York ... Artworks by in-demand British artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon are scheduled to cross the block in London in June, following on the footsteps of recent record-setting sales in New York. (Yahoo News -- Anthropology and Archaeology)
5 million was reported as a "mild distraction" Wednesday, compared to a sizzling duel over a Francis Bacon which went to an anonymous European telephone bidder for a record $86. 28 million. (Beaumont Enterprise)
A fine-art sale drew a record $86 million price for a Francis Bacon painting ... In a sign of renewed confidence among the super-wealthy, a Sotheby's auction last week drew the highest price on record for postwar or contemporary art with the $86 million sale of a Francis Bacon painting. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
For the first time in several years, Sotheby's also sold more contemporary art than its rival, capped by a beautifully grotesque "Triptych, 1976" by Francis Bacon that it sold for $86. 3 million, making it the priciest contemporary artwork ever sold at auction. (Wall Street Journal)
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Shares of global auction house Sotheby's rose more than 9 percent Thursday, a day after a Francis Bacon painting was snapped up for a record-breaking $86 million at its New York post-war art auction, soothing concerns about a slowdown in the art market. Sotheby's has lost 23 percent of its market value this year as the art market has been plagued by fears that wealthy buyers may not have enough money to spend on art in the wake of the credit crunch and U.S. economic... (ABC News -- Wire)
A Francis Bacon masterpiece has broken the artist's record at auction after selling for $86. 3m (43m) in New York. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
NEW YORK: A three-panel masterpiece by Francis Bacon broke a record for contemporary art auctions Wednesday, selling for more than $86 million after three bidders vied for it, a spokeswoman for the auction house said. The $86,281,000 price for Triptych, 1976 also set an auction record for the British artist, Sothebys spokeswoman said. (India Times)
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Too much to bear a woman in her 60s weeps on the shoulder of a policeman outside the Berowra Heights house yesterday morning. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
A three-panel work by Francis Bacon was sold at auction in New York late Wednesday for 86. 2 million dollars, setting a new record for a painting by the Irish artist. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Printing, gunpowder, the use of the compass - the three inventions that Francis Bacon once said defined the modern world - are all thought to have been first made in China. So too, many think, were vaccination, toilet paper, segmental arch bridges, iron chains and perhaps chess - the list seems endless. (International Herald Tribune)
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Jose Ramos-Horta, 57, is mobbed by the press as he arrives at a polling station to cast his vote. (Yahoo News -- East Timor)
Friday, May 16, 2008. May 15, 2008 04:30 AM. (Toronto Star)
A masterpiece by Francis Bacon has sold for 43m at Sotheby s New York, breaking the record for a work by the artist. The British Army will face a public inquiry over the torture and subsequent death of an Iraqi hotel worker in its custody, the Defence Secretary confirmed on Wednesday. (Yahoo News -- 'The Passion of the Christ')
But among the disappointments, Francis Bacon's "Three Studies for Self Portrait," estimated to fetch 25 to 35 million dollars, sold for 28 million (18 million euros), commission included ... He has said: "I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be. Yahoo! Buzz RECOMMEND THIS STORY Recommend It: Not at All Somewhat Moderately Highly Very Highly Average (Not Rated) AP AP AP AP AP The Christian Science Monitor Reuters... (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
This undated photo released by Sotheby's shows the three panels of Francis Bacon's "Triptych, 1976." (Sotheby's/The Associated Press) ... A 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon brought $86. (International Herald Tribune)
Francis Bacon's 'Triptych' on display at at Christie's auction house in London ... BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhuanet) -- A new record was set at auction Wednesday when Francis Bacon's three-panel masterpiece "Triptych, 1976" sold for 86 million U.S. dollars at Sotheby's in New York. (Xinhuanet, China)
Francis Bacon's "Triptych, 1976." (Sotheby's via AP) ... The "Triptych" was painted by Francis Bacon in 1976. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Three 1976 studies for a self-portrait by Francis Bacon presented as a triptych came in 10th position. It brought $28 million, a huge price that was only dwarfed by a very ambitious estimate, $25 million to $35 million plus the sale charge. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and James I: A Mystery for the Twenty-First Century. Temple Lodge Publishing, 2004. (Suite101.com)
The house is to be auctioned tomorrow, not by a Palm Springs realtor but alongside the trio of Francis Bacon self-portraits and a very rare Clyfford Still painting in a sale of postwar and contemporary art at Christie's in New York. Five days later, another modern American architectural landmark will go on the block when the Margaret Esherick House, which was designed by Louis Kahn at the turn of the 1960s for a local bookstore owner in the Chestnut Hill area of Philadelphia comes up for sale at... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The Picasso, a 1955 nude portrait, is likely to sell for several million dollars, while a Francis Bacon work from London's Marlborough gallery tops the price list at 35 million dollars. A Damien Hirst "spot" painting and a 1962 Andy Warhol silkscreen could also fetch millions, organisers say. (India Times)
In the 1940s and 50s, Thomas Blackburn had enjoyed success as a poet, and as well as having numerous affairs with women he also fell in love with Francis Bacon, overcoming his disgust at the bristles on his face until one night (as he recorded in his diary) "I briskly sodomised him". Thomas made no secret of his adventures: Julia's mother recalled how he came home early one morning when she was in bed with their new baby and invited her to sniff his fingers ("that was the smell of the woman he... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Four hundred years ago, an English writer-philosopher offered great advice to a counselor to King James I. Always tell the king the truth, Sir Francis Bacon wrote in a letter to his friend. Tell the king what he needs to hear, not what he wants to hear. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
In 1950, Cyril Connolly famously summed up the gloomy intimations of mortality in the national postwar psyche when he wrote, in his closing editorial for the magazine Horizon: "From now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude and the quality of his despair." He was thinking of that poster boy of gruesome angst, Francis Bacon. This nuclear age disquiet was also famously described by the poet and critic Herbert Read in the catalogue for the British Pavilion at the 1952... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
"There were points of contact [in his work] with many of his artist colleagues, even those in Paris. Soutine was not so different from Chagall, Modigliani or Maurice Utrillo."The exhibition also highlights parallels with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso," she added. Buzzing Paris The artist was born to a poor family in what is now Belarus and came to Paris in 1913 at the age of 20. The city was buzzing with young artists in search of new methods to shake up traditional art.Soutine, too, became... (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Today's quote: "We cannot command Nature except by obeying her." --- Francis Bacon. Here are some things going on today in the Cedar Valley. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
His death scenes reference the well-known connection between Velzquez and Francis Bacon, among various other things, and Stan himself throws in an allusion to the photographer Cartier-Bresson, whom Stan admires for having "spent his life chasing the decisive moment." Whatever. Some rather arcane gadgetry is paraded through the proceedings, too a camera obscura, a great big pantograph to little real effect. (VHI.com -- Music News)
A Sotheby's employee adjusts part of the triptych by British artist Francis Bacon entitled Triptych 1976 at the auction house in London, Monday April 14, 2008. The work, with an estimated sale price of some 70 million U.S. dollars (euro44 million), is to be sold at auction in New York on May 14, (Xinhua/AFP Photo). (Xinhuanet, China)
Francis Bacon Bacon had painted a portrait of Freud in 1951, and in the following year Freud painted Bacon's portrait in oils on a small copper plate. His mother Freud painted his mother many times, and the day after her death he drew The Painter's Mother Dead. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Maybury remains best known for his 1997 Francis Bacon biopic Love is the Devil and for shooting The Jacket, a psychological thriller starring Knightley. The Edge of Love has been scripted by Sharman Macdonald, Knightley's mother. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
BEIJING, March 25(Xinhuanet) -- A painting by Dublin-born British artist Francis Bacon is tipped to fetch a record 70 million dollars when it goes under the hammer in New York in May, according to media reports quoting Sotheby's Tuesday ... Francis Bacon's 'Triptych' on display at at Christie's auction house in London. (Xinhuanet, China)
A Francis Bacon triptych, described as the most important work by the artist still in private hands, is to be sold at auction for the first time since it was originally bought more than 30 years ago. Triptych, 1976, will be the star attraction at a Sotheby's sale of contemporary art in New York in May, it was announced yesterday. (Guardian Unlimited)
Laughing as he showed me the facial distortion he had captured in one photograph, he said, "That's my Francis Bacon moment." And of another, in which two angles of a dancer are shown together, "That's my Picasso.". Several photographs show Cunningham's "Crises" as danced by the cast that has again made this work brilliant since 2006. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Three things, according to the 17th-century English philosopher Francis Bacon, created Renaissance Europe: printing, gunpowder and the magnetic compass. All three had been invented in China and reached Europe along the Silk Road, together with stirrups, spinning wheels, rhubarb and, of course, silk. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Hope, as Sir Francis Bacon noted, is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. The electorate is firmly in the grasp of -- not economic anxiety, but more accurately, economic fear. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Francis Bacon vs. Science 2 ... Four hundred years ago, Francis Bacon promoted the research strategy that has ruled scientific quests ever since, what Shneiderman calls Science 1. (EurekAlert!)
Love Is the Devil (1998): In John Maybury's scathing glimpse at painter Francis Bacon, Swinton is unrecognizable as a bloated, cynical barkeep (with bad teeth, no less). Female Perversions (1997): Swinton is Eve, a Los Angeles prosecuting attorney whose harsh exterior masks a cluster of cravings and insecurities. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Interest in art has also remained buoyant -- Christie's also sold a Francis Bacon triptych for 26. 3 million pounds this month: the highest price ever paid for a post-war work of art sold in Europe. (International Herald Tribune)
On sale were paintings by Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, and works from the Chinese contemporary art world. The stellar painting is a portrait by Francis Bacon, called 'Study of Nude with Figure in Mirror. (Xinhuanet, China)
Francis Bacon is an ideal subject for a documentary and this Emmy Award winning film doesn't disappoint. Francis Bacon, Self portrait, 1971 ... Born in Ireland to British parents, Francis Bacon was a hard-drinking homosexual with a taste for rough sex who produced some of the 20th century's most striking paintings. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Some of the greatest writers, artists, and musicians of the last half-century posed for Penn; among those in the Morgan show are W.H. Auden, Francis Bacon, Marcel Duchamp, Carson McCullers, Igor Stravinsky, and Tennessee Williams. Penn is the natural heir to and , both of whom photographed cultural figures central to the early half of the 20th century for Vanity Fair and other lavish publications of the day. (Slate)
6 million pounds, respectively, including a Francis Bacon nude and Andy Warhol self-portraits. This is less than the 72. (Bloomberg -- UK)
(In fact, the Art Gallery of NSW later confirms that Brett entered the Archibald at least five times: his portraits of Richard Neville in 1975 and Francis Bacon in 1984 and 1989 were also hung. . (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
That he quotes everybody from Sir Francis Bacon to Kermit the Frog. These days, he's high on a proclamation made famous by comedian Will Ferrell in the movie Wedding Crashers: "I'm just living the dream!". (USA Today -- Sports)
This has been achieved without compromising an excellent display of the city's art history: looking at a Victorian portrait of Guardian editor CP Scott's daughter, I wonder what it would have been like to get the job of reviewing this at the time; and then I'm terrified by an eviscerated Francis Bacon and a spooky Freud. There's a love of art in this country right now. (Guardian Unlimited)
Pirates, the Knights Templar or Francis Bacon no one is sure exactly who created this mysterious money pit or why. The three bikers saw several species of whales on one outing and were able to even bike on an old railroad bed until the trail got extremely difficult and Jeff had a blowout. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Down comes the hammer on the Francis Bacon triptych. A triptych by Francis Bacon was snapped up for 26. (Telegraph.co.uk)
A Triptych painting by Francis Bacon has sold in London for 26 ... Triptych 1974-1977, which had been in private hands, was described by Christie's as "the most important work by Francis Bacon to ever appear at auction". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
With commission, the buyer has just spent a total of 26,340,500 on Francis Bacon s Triptych 1974-1977, the highest price paid for a postwar work of art sold in Europe ... It is a huge week for Christie s, the highlight being Wednesday evening, when they are selling the Francis Bacon triptych which they expect will break the record for a Bacon and become the most expensive modern painting sold in Europe. (Times Online)
Sir Francis Bacon once said knowledge is power, and the more knowledge voters have about the 2008 candidates at all levels, the better off we ll be as a nation, and as a community. (registration required). (Montrose Daily Press, CO)
A Francis Bacon triptych was sold to an anonymous buyer for 26. 3m last night, creating another record as the highest price ever paid in Europe for a postwar work. (Guardian Unlimited)
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