Francis Bacon

High Anxiety Strikes New York, Tokyo – and Your Local Mall

Damien Hirst creates grotesqueries. After all, it makes about as much sense to pay $3 million for a “Neimanesque” painting of four rotting skulls as it does to pay $3 million for a two-bedroom condo on Manhattan’s lower West...

Zero gravity artwork sells for £223,000 at auction

It is the first painting to have been created in a zero gravity environment. An artwork by British artist Nasser Azam which was completed in zero gravity has sold at a New York auction for $332,500 (£223,000). Homage to Francis...

Evolution of the visual system is key to abstract art

Famous works of abstract art achieve popularity by using shapes that resonate with the neural mechanisms in the brain linked to visual information, a psychologist at the University of Liverpool has discovered.

Recession woes pop art market bubble

Dealers are reporting weaker sales, while hesitant buyers and fewer art fair visitors are taking a toll on the once untouchable market. Since art dealer Kathleen Cullen opened an exhibit of photographs by award-winning artist...

Who said: A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626, English philosopher, essayist, and statesman, b. London, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Gray's Inn. He was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper to Queen Elizabeth I. Francis...

Gallery puts a rush on Russian artists

“Swing” (2008), a painting by Ivan Plusch. Provided by the organizer The world is eyeing up Russian contemporary arts. Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the gradual breakdown of communism, Russian art...

Eyes of the East on art rebel

G20 leaders head to Washington to discuss the global financial crisis, while the Chinese government's $586 billion economic stimulus plan may mark a historic transition for China, moving from an export-oriented to a...

Slow sales at NYC auctions may be sign of health

Associated Press NEW YORK -- That's the consensus of some art experts who say the lower prices and unsold works at Sotheby's and Christie's over the past two weeks may be a healthy development. "The truth is that for serious...

Art makes loss but Fuld is still an old master

ANOTHER disappointing week for Dick Fuld, the former boss of Lehman Brothers. Last week Fuld and his art-loving wife Kathy put a collection of postwar drawings up for sale at Christie’s, including works by Willem de Kooning,...

Art buyers sitting pretty as a picture as major Irish sale offers chance to invest

RECESSIONARY VISION: Ian Whyte with 'The Saint of Poverty' by William Orpen (1905), which has an estimated price of e15,000-e20,000 By NIAMH HORAN Sunday November 16 2008 THE financial world may have come to a shuddering halt...

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