There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits ... that haven’t been exhibited to death – unlike, say, the Arts Council’s Head VI (1949), in which a hanging ...

In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992 ... It would be too simple — too antiseptic — to say that both artists exposed the dark underbelly of society or reveled ...

In a section on Francis Bacon and George Dyer, Trend highlights Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer (1963), saying: “There is coldness here as well as desire, especially in the glassy-eyed ...