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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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Erica Brausen: Premier Marchand de Francis Bacon

Jean Yves Mock, L'Échoppe,Paris, 1996, French

'The Fugitive Body: Bacon's Fistula'

Book ChapterThe Body
Nick Millet, Academy Group,London, Ernst and Sohn,Berlin, 1993, English

'The Violence of Paint'

Book ChapterThe Body
Parveen Adams, Academy Group,London, Ernst and Sohn,Berlin, 1993, English

'Francis Bacon'

Book ChapterSumma Pictoria: De las Vanguardias de la Postmodernidad
Denis Farr, Editorial Planeta,Barcelona, 2001, Spanish

'What the critics said: Bacon in his prime'

Sarah Greenberg, Tate: The Art Magazine, 1996, English

'Finding the Matisse in Bacon'

David Sylvester, Tate: The Art Magazine, 1996, English

'The ambiguous precision of Francis Bacon'

Rory Snookes, Tate: The Art Magazine, 1999, English

'Chaos theory'

Chris Turner, Tate: The Art Magazine, 2001, English

'Bacon - II'

Book ChapterAbout Modern Art: Critical Essays 1948-96
David Sylvester, Chatto and Windus, 1996, English

'The Problem of Francis Bacon'

Book ChapterThe Age of the Avant-Garde: An Art Chronicle of 1956-1972
Hilton Kramer, Secker and Warburg,London, 1974, English

'Talk at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1971'

Richard Hamilton, Tate Publishing,London, 2014, English

Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna

Wolfgang Drechsler, Rainer Fuchs, Ulrike Müller, Prestel Verlag,Munich, Berlin, London and New York, 2002, English

'Francis Bacon'

Book ChapterPortraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere
Michael Kimmelman, Random House,New York, 1998, English

New Art New World: British Art in Postwar Society

Margaret Garlake, Yale University Press for Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,New Haven, 1998, English

Soho in the Fifties

Daniel Farson, Michael Joseph,London, 1987, English

Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection: Volume I: European 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture

Steven Hooper, Yale University Press,New Haven and London, University of East Anglia,Norwich, 1997, English

'Francis Bacon'

David Sylvester, New Statesman,London, 1962, English

'The art of ordered chaos'

Michael Kimmelman, The Times, 1989, English

'A random view of London pleasures'

John Russell Taylor, The Times, 1980, English

'Reality reassured'

Dennis Hackett, The Times, 1985, English

'Master of isolation'

Brandon Taylor, The Times, 1988, English

'Bacon painting in auction record'

Geraldine Norman, The Times, 1986, English

'A brush with ebullient despair'

Peter Lennon, The Times, 1983, English

'Carcasses and crucifixes'

Jane Withers, Anthony Fawcett, The Times, 1985, English

'A master of deep disquiet'

John Russell Taylor, The Times, 1985, English

'A genius? I say rotten'

Bernard Levin, The Times, 1985, English

'Galleries: Bacon's new creativity'

John Russell Taylor, The Times, 1981, English

'No friends, by request, at Bacon's farewell'

Edward Owen, Nicholas Watt, The Times, 1992, English

'Snapshots of sozzled Soho'

John Russell Taylor, The Times, 1996, English

'...and moreover'

Craig Brown, The Times, 1992, English

'Diving deep into darkness'

Richard Cork, The Times, 1998, English

'Around the galleries'

John Russell Taylor, The Times, 1999, English

'Evaluating artists'

Brian R. Battersby, The Times, 1992, English