British writer Michael Peppiatt first published his widely appreciated biography of painter Francis Bacon in 1997. Since then, he has kept abreast of everything he could find, published...

Rare pair of rugs designed by the young Francis Bacon to be auctioned.

Colony Room Club Soho's fabled drinking den beloved of artists from Francis Bacon to Tracey Emin to close.

It is the drinking den whose patrons have included such artists as Francis Bacon and Tracey Emin but the Colony Room in Soho may be about to have a surprising new owner.

A Francis Bacon selfportrait was withdrawn half way though a Christie's auction in New York after bidding failed to take off.