Francis Bacon: Head VI (1949). Oil on canvas ‘A man with whom I can do business’ Mrs Thatcher had said, famously, of her meetings with the main instrument of the new openness, Soviet premier ...

The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits is like ... worst and everything in between. His small head triptychs in particular capture ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness of his times in his work", said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. When we think of him, we tend to ...