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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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'New York: Francis Bacon'

Thomas McEvilley, Artforum, 1984, English

'Francis Bacon: Marlborough Gallery'

Jeanne Silverthorne, Artforum, 1980, English

'It Ain't the Meat'

Richard Shone, Artforum, 1998, English

'Hysterical Painting'

Donald Kuspit, Artforum, 1986, English

'Claim for Bacon'

Rex Valentine, Modern Painters, 1988, English

'Bacon Goes To Moscow'

James Birch, Modern Painters, 1988, English

'Francis Bacon at Eighty'

Peter Jenkins, Modern Painters, 1989, 1990, English

'Touching the void'

Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times, 2008, English

'Any way that you slice it'

John Russell Taylor, The Times, 2001, English

'Bacon estate sues art dealer'

Helen Rumbelow, The Times, 2001, English

'I had nobody else to paint'

Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times, 2006, English

'Bacon's estate 'is trying it on''

Helen Rumbelow, The Times, 2001, English

'The many faces of Bacon'

Joanna Pitman, The Times, 2008, English

'In Camera - Francis Bacon'

Barbara Dawson, Irish Arts Review, 2005, English

'Old acquaintance'

Margarita Cappock, Irish Arts Review, 2014, English

'Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty'

Brian McAvera, Irish Arts Review, 2010, English

'Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty'

Barbara Dawson, Irish Arts Review, 2009, English

'Fragments of time'

Catherine Marshall, Irish Arts Review, 2009, English

'Francis Bacon in the 1950s'

Brian Fallon, Irish Arts Review, 2006, English

'The Chaos of Creation'

Philip McEvansoneya, Irish Arts Review, 2006, English

'Francis Bacon, the Papal Portraits of 1953'

Alexander Kearney, Irish Arts Review, 2003, English

Realism in 20th Century Painting

Brendan Prendeville, Thames & Hudson,London, 2000, English

'Francis Bacon: "De-Faced" Self-Portraits'

Book ChapterNarcissus in Troubled Waters: Francis Bacon, Bill Viola, Jeff Wall
Henri de Riedmatten, L'Erma di Bretschneider,Rome, 2011, English

'Francis Bacon: Henrietta Moraes'

Itzhak Goldberg, Beaux Arts Magazine, 2008, French