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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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'Reality Plus'

John Russell, The Sunday Times, 1952, English

'Across the Channel'

John Russell, The Sunday Times, 1957, English

'A Private Mythology'

John Russell, The Sunday Times, 1957, English

'Bacon's Progress, Epstein's Past'

Basil Taylor, The Sunday Times, 1960, English

'THE ART OF THE IMPOSSIBLE'

David Sylvester, The Sunday Times Magazine, 1963, English

'Titian Crossed With Tussaud'

John Russell, The Sunday Times, 1962, English

'DARK SUNLIGHT'

David Sylvester, The Sunday Times Magazine, 1963, English

'On Bacon's own terms'

John Russell, The Sunday Times, 1963, English

'On bearable terms with the worst'

John Russell, The Sunday Times, 1965, English

'The human presence'

John Russell, The Sunday Times, 1967, English

'Bacon's universal room'

John Russell, The Sunday Times, 1968, English

'Master class'

John Russell, The Sunday Times, 1975, English

'A terrible beauty'

Marina Vaizey, The Sunday Times, 1977, English

'Slice of Bacon'

Henry Porter, The Sunday Times, 1983, English

'Bacon: genius who walks alone'

Marina Vaizey, The Sunday Times, 1985, English

'Bernard Levin's portrait of the artist'

Alan Halliday, Robert Buhler, Ann Marguerite O'Neill, F. E. McWilliam, The Times, 1985, English

'Sleaze and fractured glamour'

Craig Brown, The Sunday Times, 1987, English

'Bacon's art gets the red-carpet treatment'

Geordie Greig, The Sunday Times, 1988, English

'Bacon baffles the Russians'

Angus Roxburgh, The Sunday Times, 1988, English

'SCHOOL or SCANDAL?'

Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times Magazine, 1989, English

'Francis Bacon at eighty'

Daniel Farson, The Sunday Times Magazine, 1989, English

'A brush with despair'

Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times, 1992, English

'The butcher boy'

Frances Spalding, The Sunday Times, 1993, English

'On the outside looking in'

Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times, 1993, English

'Daniel Farson vs Andrew Sinclair'

Robert Leedham, The Sunday Times, 1993, English

'The Queen of Soho'

Frances Spalding, The Sunday Times, 1994, English

'Painters of despair driven to distortion'

Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times, 1995, English

'Unofficial openings'

Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times, 1995, English

'Portrait of a discovery'

Debra Craine, The Times, 1996, English

'A peace that surpasses all misunderstanding'

Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times, 1996, English

'Paint, drink and be merry'

Jeffrey Bernard, The Sunday Times, 1996, English

[Untitled]

Frederic Raphael, The Sunday Times, 1996, English

'Censors fail to save Bacon'

Daniel Farson, The Sunday Times, 1996, English

'Oxford's Bacon'

Robert Stevens, The Times, 1997, English

'To shock is not enough'

Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times, 1998, English

'Raw flesh that looks pretty in pink'

Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times, 1998, English

'Anger as Bacon studio is moved to Dublin'

Geordie Greig, John Harlow, The Sunday Times, 1998, English

'Francis Bacon's studio leaves town'

Geordie Greig, The Sunday Times, 1998, English

'Paint it black'

Tom Shone, The Sunday Times, 1998, English

'Is there more than meets the eye?'

Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times, 1999, English

'Biteback'

Richard Brooks, The Sunday Times, 2000, English

'Beyond the Fringe: ghostly medics and Gauguin'

Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times, 2005, English

'Last days of the rage'

Andrew Sinclair, The Sunday Times, 1993, English