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Francis Bacon Bibliography

Perry Ogden, Francis Bacon's 7 Reece Mews studio, London, 1998.

© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2018.

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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'Caught by the artist's snapshot'
Review/Exhibition
William Packer, Financial Times, 1993, English
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'The London Six go north to Scotland'
Review/Exhibition
William Packer, Financial Times, 1995, English
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'Two masters pay their papal dues'
Review/Exhibition
William Packer, Financial Times, 1996, English
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'Closer look at Bacon'
Review/Exhibition
William Packer, Financial Times, 1996, English
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'A beautiful but empty portrait'
Review/Publication
Martin Hoyle, Financial Times, 1998, English
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'Francis Bacon'
Book ChapterModern English Painters: III. Wood to Hockney
John Rothenstein, MacDonald and Jane's,London, 1974, 1976, English
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'Sutherland brings home the Bacon'
Review/Exhibition
William Packer, Financial Times, 1999, English
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'Draughtsman comes out of the closet'
Review/Exhibition
William Packer, Financial Times, 1999, English
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'The paradoxes of Francis Bacon'
Review/Exhibition
Denys Sutton, Financial Times, 1963, English
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'Francis Bacon: 6 June 1985'
Book ChapterNew Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money: Art in the 1980s
Richard Cork, Yale University Press,New Haven and London, 2003, English
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'Francis Bacon - Too Shrill a Cry?'
Review/Exhibition
Denys Sutton, Financial Times, 1962, English
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'A Visit to Bacon's Studio: 4 October 1971'
Book ChapterEverything Seemed Possible: Art in the 1970s
Richard Cork, Yale University Press,New Haven and London, 2003, English
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'Francis Bacon: The Art of Looking'
Book ChapterLove in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar
Colm Tóibín, Picador,London, 2002, English
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'The worst is not yet'
Book ChapterArts in Society
John Berger, Fontana,London, 1977, English
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'Francis Bacon and Walt Disney'
Book ChapterAbout Looking
John Berger, Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative, Ltd.,London, 1980, English
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'Francis Bacon'
Book ChapterThe Reviews That Caused The Rumpus and other pieces
Brian Sewell, Bloomsbury Publishing,London and New York, 1994, English
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'Abstraction and Figuration: Francis Bacon'
Book ChapterModern Painting and Sculpture: 1880 to the Present at The Museum of Modern Art
James Thrall Soby, Museum of Modern Art,New York, 2004, English
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'Genre: Twentieth Century'
Book ChapterThe Painter and the Photograph: from Delacroix to Warhol
Frank Van Deren Coke, University of New Mexico Press,Albuquerque, 1964, 1972, English
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'Francis Bacon'
Book ChapterArt & Death
Chris Townsend, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.,London, 2008, English
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'Damien Hirst - Francis Bacon'
Book ChapterArt & Death
Chris Townsend, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.,London, 2008, English
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The Francis Bacon Interiors: Michael Peppiatt in Conversation with Robert Priseman
Monograph
Michael Peppiatt, Seabrook Press,Wivenhoe, Huddersfield Art Gallery,Huddersfield, 2009, English
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'The Bones and the Flesh: Henry Moore and Francis Bacon'
Book ChapterBeauty for Ashes: Selected Prose & Related Documents
Francis Warner, Colin Smythe Limited,Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, 2012, English
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'Fascinating Facture'
Book ChapterAuschwitz and Afterimages: Abjection, Witnessing and Representation
Nicholas Chare, I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.,London, 2011, English
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'Power'
Review/Exhibition
Eric Newton, The Guardian, 1963, English
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'Francis Bacon on BBC-1'
Article/Newspaper
Mary Crozier, The Guardian, 1966, English
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'Beyond Despair'
Review/Exhibition
Anthony Tucker, The Guardian, 1961, English
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'Peculiar kind of loathing'
Review/Exhibition
Eric Newton, The Guardian, 1960, English
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'Mortal Conflict'
Review/Exhibition
Eric Newton, The Guardian, 1962, English
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'Reality abandoned'
Review/Exhibition
Norbert Lynton, The Guardian, 1965, English
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'Works Which Play on the Nerves'
Review/Exhibition
Stephen Bone, The Manchester Guardian, 1955, English
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'Victims of paint'
Review/Publication
Norbert Lynton, The Guardian, 1971, English
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'Bacon talking'
Review/Publication
Nigel Gosling, The Observer, 1975, English
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'Flynn affair'
Review/Publication
Hugh Herbert, The Guardian, 1985, English
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'Arts hotlines are buzzing'
Article/Newspaper
Elizabeth Moloney, The Guardian, 1988, English
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'Accident control'
Review/Publication
Michael McNay, The Guardian, 1980, English
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'Behind the brutality of Bacon'
Review/Exhibition
Waldemar Januszczak, The Guardian, 1985, English
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'Surreal encounter'
Review/Exhibition
Charles Darwent, The Guardian, 1988, English
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'Sacred and profane'
Review/Exhibition
Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 1996, English
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'Studios and Private Faces I & II'
Book ChapterTime's Thievish Progress. Autobiography III
John Rothenstein, Cassell & Company Ltd.,London, 1970, English
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'Real imagination is technical imagination'
Book ChapterTowards Another Picture: An anthology of writings by artists working in Britain 1945-1977
Francis Bacon, Midland Group Nottingham,Nottingham, 1977, English
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'I've tried often enough. But...'
Book ChapterTowards Another Picture: An anthology of writings by artists working in Britain 1945-1977
Francis Bacon, Midland Group Nottingham,Nottingham, 1977, English
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'On Matthew Smith'
Book ChapterTowards another picture: an anthology of writings by artists working in Britain, 1945-1977
Francis Bacon, Midland Group Nottingham,Nottingham, 1977, English
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'Who remembers or cares about a happy society'
Book ChapterTowards Another Picture: An anthology of writings by artists working in Britain 1945-1977
Francis Bacon, Midland Group Nottingham,Nottingham, 1977, English
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'Francis Bacon and the Fortunes of Poetry'
Book ChapterOut of Eden: Essays on Modern Art
W. S. Di Piero, University of California Press,Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1991, English
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'Crisis in Paint'
Book ChapterThe School of London: the Resurgence of Contemporary Painting
Alistair Hicks, Phaidon,Oxford, 1989, English
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'The Contemporary Spectrum'
Book ChapterImagination's Chamber: Artists and Their Studios
Michael Peppiatt, Alice Bellony-Rewald, The Gordon Fraser Gallery Limited,London, 1983, English
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'Framing the Unframable: Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon'
Article/Journal
Jane Hale, Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 1993, English
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