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The literature on Francis Bacon is large and ever expanding. While Bacon has been vividly discussed during his lifetime, after his death the uncovering of sketches by the artist, a rediscovery of paintings previously lost or presumed destroyed, and the reconstruction of his studio in Dublin have prompted a growing number of new studies, articles and exhibitions. Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, published by The Estate of Francis Bacon in 2016 contains a comprehensive bibliography of writing on the artist, which forms the basis of the present section on francis-bacon.com. The Estate of Francis Bacon is currently in the process of digitising, editing, expanding and updating this bibliography and new entries will be uploaded on a regular basis.

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'Francis Bacon, il grido prima dell'orrore'

Finetta Guerrera, Sicilia del Lunedi, , Italian

'Francis Bacon'

Author Unknown, Beaux Arts Magazine, , French

Art Now: An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture

Herbert Read, Faber and Faber Limited,London, 1933, English

'Art and Artists'

P. G. Konody, The Observer, 1933, English

Art Now: An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture

Herbert Read, Faber and Faber Limited,London, 1936, 1938, English

'"A new idiom" in painting'

Eric Hall, The Sunday Times, 1937, English

'Nonsense Art'

Author Unknown, Referee, 1937, English

'Bacon's letters to Sutherland'

Writings by BaconBacon and Sutherland
Francis Bacon, Yale University Press for Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art New Haven, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1954, English

'ART'

Michael Ayrton, The Spectator,London, 1945, English

'At the Lefevre'

Raymond Mortimer, The New Statesman and Nation,London, 1945, English

'The Lefevre Gallery'

Maurice Collis, Time and Tide London, 1946, English

BRITISH PAINTERS PAST AND PRESENT

The Lefevre Gallery ,London, 1946, English

'NEW PICTURES'

Roger Marvell, The New Statesman and Nation,London, 1946, English

Painting Since 1939

Robin Ironside, Longmans Green & Co for the British Council,London, New York and Toronto, 1947, English

Contemporary Painters

James Thrall Soby, Museum of Modern Art,New York, 1948, English

'Letter from London'

Patrick Heron, Magazine of Art, 1948, English

'Survivors'

Time,New York, 1949, English

'At the Galleries: Nightmare'

Nevile Wallis, The Observer, 1949, English

'Double Bass and Piccolo'

Eric Newton, The Sunday Times, 1949, English

'Round the London Art Galleries'

Wyndham Lewis, The Listener London, 1949, English

'Round the London Art Galleries'

Wyndham Lewis, The Listener London, 1949, English