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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: La France et Monaco / France and Monaco

Martin Harrison, Albin Michel Paris, Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation,Monte Carlo, 2016, French, English

Francis Bacon in your Blood: A Memoir

Michael Peppiatt, Bloomsbury Publishing London and New York, 2015, English

Francis Bacon: Painting in a Godless World

Rina Arya, Lund Humphries Farnham, 2012, English

Francis Bacon and Nazi Propaganda

Martin Hammer, Tate Publishing London, 2012, English

Francis Bacon: Metamorphoses

Katharina Günther, The Estate of Francis Bacon London, 2011, English

Francis Bacon - New Studies: Centenary Essays

Martin Harrison, Steidl Göttingen, 2009, English

Francis Bacon: Incunabula

Martin Harrison, Rebecca Daniels, Thames & Hudson London, 2008, English

Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait: Essays and Interviews

Michael Peppiatt, Yale University Press New Haven and London, 2008, English

Francis Bacon

Francesca Marini, Thames & Hudson London, Skira Milan, 2008, English

Bacon and Sutherland

Martin Hammer, Yale University Press for Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art New Haven, 2005, English

Francis Bacon's Studio

Margarita Cappock, Merrell London, 2005, English

Bacon-Picasso: The Life of Images

Anne Baldassari, Flammarion Paris, 2005, English

Bacon-Picasso: la vie des images

Anne Baldassari, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux and Éditions Flammarion Paris, 2005, French

Francis Bacon

Andrew Brighton, Tate Publishing London, 2001, English

Looking Back at Francis Bacon

David Sylvester, Thames & Hudson London, 2000, English

Francis Bacon: 'Taking Reality by Surprise'

Christophe Domino, Thames & Hudson London, 1997, English

Bacon: monstre de peinture

Christophe Domino, Gallimard Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou,Paris, 1996, French

Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict

Wieland Schmied, Prestel-Verlag Munich and New York, 1996, English

Francis Bacon

Philippe Dagen, Editions Cercle d'Art Paris, 1996, French

Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self

Ernst van Alphen, Reaktion Books London, 1992, English

Francis Bacon

Hugh M. Davies, Sally Yard, Abbeville Press New York, 1986, English

Francis Bacon: face et profil

Michel Leiris, Albin Michel Paris, Prestel-Verlag Munich, Ediciones Polígrafia Barcelona, 1983, French

Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile

Michel Leiris, Phaidon Oxford, Rizzoli New York, 1983, English, French

Francis Bacon: cara y perfil

Michel Leiris, Ediciones Poligrafa Madrid, 1983, Spanish

Francis Bacon: Logique de la Sensation

Gilles Deleuze, Éditions de la Differénce La Roche-sur-Yon, 1981, French

Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation

Gilles Deleuze, Continuum London and New York, 2003, English

Francis Bacon: The Early and Middle Years, 1928-1958

Hugh M. Davies, Garland Publishing London and New York, 1978, English

Francis Bacon

Lorenza Trucchi, Fratelli Fabbri Editori Milan, 1975, Italian

Francis Bacon

Lorenza Trucchi, Thames & Hudson London, Harry N. Abrams New York, 1976, English

Francis Bacon

John Russell, Thames & Hudson London, New York Graphic Society Greenwich, CT, 1971, English

Francis Bacon

John Russell, Thames & Hudson London, Oxford University Press New York, 1979, 1985, 1989, English

Francis Bacon

John Russell, Thames & Hudson London, 1993, English

Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné and Documentation

Ronald Alley, John Rothenstein, Thames & Hudson London, Viking Press New York, 1964, English

‘Bacon’s Beginnings’

James Norton, The Burlington Magazine, 2016, English

Francis Bacon: Late Paintings

Michael Cary, Gagosian Gallery,New York, 2015, English

Francis Bacon: Five Decades

Anthony Bond, Thames & Hudson London, Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, 2012, English

Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty

Logan Sisley, Steidl Göttingen, 2009, English

Caravaggio Bacon

Michael Peppiatt, Federico Motta Editore Milan, 2009, Italian, English

Francis Bacon

Matthew Gale, Chris Stephens, Tate Publishing London, 2008, English

Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Real

Armin Zweite, Thames & Hudson London, 2006, English

Francis Bacon in the 1950s

Michael Peppiatt, Yale University Press in assoc. with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts New Haven, 2006, English

Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads

National Galleries of Scotland in association with the British Council Edinburgh, 2005, English

Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art

Skira Milan, Thames & Hudson London, 2003, English

Francis Bacon: Caged, Uncaged

Vincente Todoli, Fundação de Serralves,Porto, 2003, English, Portuguese, Portugal