Michael Peppiatt, 'The making of an artist - from weakling to enigmatic master', 1996

Michael Peppiatt, 'Two men, and nanny made three', 1996

Michael Peppiatt, 'The howl of an iconoclast', 1996

Michael Peppiatt, 'Bacon falls violently in love', 1996

David Sylvester, 'Life with thugs', 1996

Richard Davenport-Hines, 'Painting pictures in Soho and Greenwich Village', 1996

Michael McNay, 'Pigment at its limit', 1996

John Russell, 'A Magnificent Mischief-Maker: To be in Francis Bacon's company was to be dazzled and confused, seduced and stunned', 1997

Jonathan Meades, 'His life was a commitment to excess. So it's no surprise that some portraits had two heads' , 1996

Jeffrey Bernard, 'Paint, drink and be merry', 1996

Frederic Raphael, [Untitled], 1996

Martin Gayford, 'The painter in pain', 1996

Timothy Hyman, 'Priest of a dark cult', 1997

Jonathan Raban, [Untitled], 1997

James Malpas, 'Lives of the artists: Small revelations', 1997

Glyn Hughes, 'Bringing home Bacon off the beaten track', 1996

Nicholas Fox Weber, 'Dark Vision', 1997

George Melly, 'Violent need to walk on the wild side', 1996

Richard Shone, 'Hiding from the glare of mortality', 1996

Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma , Revised edn. , 2008