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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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'Buyers stampede for 'bleak' Bacons'

Martin Evans, The Independent, 2002, English

'Bacon: a mystery in the East'

Mike Bygrave, Jan McGirk, The Independent on Sunday, 2003, English

'Bacon reigns in Spain'

Sue Hubbard, The Independent, 2004, English

'Soak it up'

Kate Bernard, Tatler, 2002, English

'Six New Masters'

Michael Peppiatt, Connoisseur, 1987, English

'Exhibitions'

Christopher Drake, The Tatler & Bystander, 1972, English

'Remaking Bacon'

Andrés Mario Zervigón, Art Journal,New York, 1995, English

'Turner at the Academy'

Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, The Times, 1974, English

'Wealth tax and the living artist'

Robert Adams, Francis Bacon, others , The Times, 1975, 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

'Love for sale'

Sue Hubbard, The Independent, 2005, English

'Bacon's studies in friendship'

Charlotte Cripps, The Independent, 2005, English

'Painters and pictures'

Michael Middleton, Vogue,London, 1952, English

'Letter from London'

Mollie Panter-Downes, The New Yorker, 1962, English

'Views and reviews'

Karl Miller, Vogue,London, 1967, English

'The Art World: Aesthetics of Mutilation'

Harold Rosenberg, The New Yorker, 1975, English

'The Art World: Optimist'

Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 1990, English

'London commentary'

G. S. Whittet, The Studio,London, 1957, English

'London commentary'

G. S. Whittet, The Studio,London, 1960, English

'Francis Bacon'

Robert Melville, Studio International, 1967, English

'Francis Bacon: Case-history painting'

Howard Griffin, The Studio,London, 1961, English

'G. S. Whittet says...'

G. S. Whittet, The Studio,London, 1962, English

Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology

Martin Harrison, Thames & Hudson,London, The Estate of Francis Bacon,London, 2019, English

'Francis Bacon and Queer Intimacy in Post-War London'

Gregory Salter, Visual Culture in Britain, 2017, English

'Interviewing the Artist: Richter Versus Bacon'

Book ChapterThe Mediatization of the Artist
Sandra Kisters, Palgrave Macmillan,Basingstoke, 2018, English

Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence

Richard Curson Smith, BBC Television,London, 2017, English

Francis Bacon: Unsichtbare Räume = Invisible Rooms

Ina Conzen, Staatsgalerie,Stuttgart, 2016, German, English

'The Brutality of Fact'

Tom Clucas, The Oxonian Review,Oxford, 2013, English

'Review: Francis Bacon/Henry Moore'

Beth Timmins, Cherwell,Oxford, 2013, English

'Bacon painting sells for record $142.4 million'

Chidanand Rajghatta, The Times of India,, 2013, English

'Shock and awe at unlikely meeting of two art Titans'

Lesley Potter, Henley Standard,Henley-on-Thames, 2013, English