Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as ... Indeed, the only recognisable face here is the artist's own, represented here in a number of eerie self-portraits. One "strange and ...

The National Portrait Gallery show is also an appreciation of Bacon’s innate understanding of how to make a painting work.

If you’ve seen the portraits painted by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso or Irish artist Francis Bacon, then you may perhaps ...