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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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'Bacon hangs his favourites'

William Feaver, The Observer, 1985, English

'Saving Bacon'

William Feaver, The Observer, 1985, English

Contemporary British Art

Herbert Read, Penguin Books,Harmondsworth, 1951, English

Contemporary British Art

Herbert Read, Penguin Books,Harmondsworth, 1964, English

'Nicholson, Bacon, Freud'

Book ChapterA Letter to a Young Painter
Herbert Read, Thames & Hudson,London, 1962, English

Brave Day Hideous Night: Autobiography 1939-1965 (II)

John Rothenstein, Hamish Hamilton,London, 1966, English

'Espaces Inquiets'

Book ChapterArt Fantastique
Marcel Brion, Éditions Albin Michel,Paris, 1961, French

'Francis Bacon im Gespräch / Die dynamische Realität der Kreuzigung'

Book ChapterCrucifixus: Das Kreuz in der Kunst unserer Zeit
Friedhelm Mennekes, Herder,Freiburg, Basel and Wien, 1994, German

'Raffish old master of the elusive'

William Feaver, The Observer, 1992, English

'In a class of their own'

William Feaver, The Observer, 1995, English

'Bacon'

Book ChapterMasterpieces of 20th-Century Art: from the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Werner Schmalenbach, Prestel-Verlag,Munich, 1990, English

'Works by Derrick Greaves'

Stephen Bone, The Manchester Guardian, 1953, English

'Francis and me'

Peter Lennon, Weekend Guardian, 1992, English

'The Queen of Soho'

Patrick Cooney, The Guardian Weekend, 1998, English

'The Born Again Dubliner'

Sally Vincent, The Guardian Weekend, 2001, English

'My years at the Tate'

John Rothenstein, Studio International, 1965, English

'An interview with Clement Greenberg'

Edward Lucie-Smith, Studio International, 1968, English

'New York commentary'

Dore Ashton, Studio International, 1969, English

'Positioning in Representation'

Lawrence Gowing, Studio International, 1972, English

'The Modernity of Late Sickert'

Richard Morphet, Studio International, 1975, English

'Bed or dais'

Derek Southall, Studio International, 1972, English

'Rina Arya: Francis Bacon. Painting in a Godless World'

Adrian Clark, The British Art Journal, 2012, 2013, English

'Auerbach, Bacon and Smith'

Adrian Clark, The British Art Journal, 2010, English

'The School of London in Vienna'

Natasha Unkart, Nikolaus Zeiner, The British Art Journal, 1999, English

'Francis Bacon en sa terre natale'

Emmanuelle Lequeux, Beaux Arts Magazine, 2010, French

'Bacon, Half-Baked'

Ben Davis, artnet Magazine, 2009, English

'£9.5m Bacon out of Tate's reach'

Maev Kennedy, The Guardian, 2004, English

'Prophet of a pitiless world'

John Berger, The Guardian, 2004, English