Tate hopes to secure the hidden gem

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The last summing up, two months before he died, by the greatest Irish painter of the 20th century in an interview with the photographer Francis Giacobetti

Solicitors for John Edwards’ estate deny that his lover has inherited the art

Problematic Warhols hinder Christie’s but Sotheby’s sparkles with Richter Riley, Barceló and Flanaghan

Fondation Vincent van Gogh assembles the surviving paintings in this series

Record prices for Andreas Gursky, Peter Doig, Luciano Fabro and Douglas Gordon

No evidence of blackmail, and video shows the artist satisfied with his gallery

Inside 7 Reece Mews

Francis Bacon’s studio (Thames & Hudson, London, 2001), 129 pp, 60 col. ills £14.95 (hb) ISBN 0500510342.

A poster campaign has been launched to recover the work which disappeared from the Neue Nationalgalerie

Litigation may reveal the operations of one of London’s leading galleries and its Liechtenstein subsidiary

Bacon lithographs at Coskun, Euan Uglow at Browse and Darby and Albers at Waddingtons

Tate lends Bacon works on paper for comparison with disputed works but comparative photos of Tate works are not allowed

Bacon executor denies parallels with its own case

A second exhibition of Barry Joule’s collection, left to him by Francis Bacon his former neighbour, is still a matter of dispute with the Bacon Estate

David Sylvester reevaluates violence

Artist allegedly exploited and heir denied his inheritance

The drawings will be displayed as “attributed to F. Bacon”

The Joule archive drawings continue to cause contention

Richardson talks about his mentor and one time lover, Douglas Cooper—fiendish and funny art historian, aesthete and champion of Cubism

The new sole executor of Bacon's estate talks in his first public interview about the teams of lawyers now working to see that the artist’s beneficiary, John Edwards, receives precisely what Francis intended him to receive. And that is everything

The Tate unveils its previously unknown Bacon drawings to the world while two US museums present new views of the blockbuster British artist

Mammon’s shrine in the groves of academe

The exhibition notably shuns the Marlborough gallery, which represented the artist throughout his life

Komar and Melamid reveal what we like, Tory politician Jeffrey Archer speculates in Warhols, fictional Bacon somewhat censored, and Britain’s own intellectual, Jonathan Miller, on reflection

The relationship between painting and physiognomy explored in Milan, from Da Vinci to Bacon

London artists Tracey Emin, Gary Hume and Gillian Wearing play bit-parts

The case is particularly difficult given the scarcity of drawings by the artist

Bringing home Bacon—again