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Francis Bacon Bibliography

Perry Ogden, Francis Bacon's 7 Reece Mews studio, London, 1998.

© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2018.

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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'Boyfriend of artist Bacon frittered away £10m'

Article/Newspaper

David Sapsted, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2004, English

'FALSE FRIEND'

Article/Newspaper

John Banville, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine,London, 2005, English

'A fresh side of Bacon'

Review/Exhibition

Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2005, English

'Record £4.9m for Bacon's portrait of lover'

Article/Newspaper

Nigel Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2005, English

'THE PAIN IS TAKING SHAPE'

Review/Exhibition

Ben Lewis, The Sunday Telegraph,London, 2006, English

'Prometheus and the Degenerate: Arno Breker, Hans Bellmer, and Francis Bacon's Extreme Realism'

Book ChapterRepresenting the Experience of War and Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Visual Criminology

Mark Featherstone, Palgrave Macmillan,Basingstoke, 2019, English

'Dicing the Meat: Bacon in the middle of an arts-based sandwich'

Book ChapterArt, Artists and Pedagogy: Philosophy and the Arts in Education

David R. Cole, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group London, New York, 2018, English

'Freud and Bacon'

Book ChapterThe Art of Rivalry. Four Friendships, Betrayals & Breakthroughs in Modern Art

Sebastian Smee, Profile Books,London, 2016, English

'The "Logic of Sensation" and "Logique de la sensation" as Models for Experimental Writing on Images'

Book ChapterArt History after Deleuze and Guattari

James Elkins, Leuven University Press Leuven, 2017, English

'Bacon at Grand Palais. Echoes and influences'

Book ChapterMonographic Exhibitions and the History of Art

Monika Keska, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,Abingdon, 2018, English

'Journeys into the soul'

Review/Exhibition

Serena Davies, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2006, English

'Francis Bacon in the 1950s'

Review/Publication

Martin Gayford, The Sunday Telegraph,London, 2006, English

'The price of Bacon hits record £44m'

Article/Newspaper

Stephen Adams, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2008, English

'BEHIND THE MYTH OF FRANCIS BACON'

Review/Exhibition

Rebecca Daniels, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2008, English

'ANOTHER STREAK TO BACON'

Review/Exhibition

Kathryn Hughes, The Sunday Telegraph,London, 2008, English

'Bacon's merciless slices of life'

Review/Exhibition

Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2008, English

'Magnificent, exuberant despair'

Review/Exhibition

Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Sunday Telegraph,London, 2008, English

'Desperately seeking Daddy'

Review/Publication

Lewis Jones, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2008, English

'Sizzling attack on Bacon'

Article/Newspaper

Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2009, English

'Bacon's triptych of his great friend Freud emerges after 45 years'

Article/Newspaper

Colin Gleadell, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2011, English

'Sizzling find: Bacon on back of work by amateur'

Article/Newspaper

The Daily Telegraph,London, 2013, English

'Who'd want to bring home the Bacon?'

Article/Newspaper

Mark Hudson, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2013, English

'Francis Bacon triptych smashes art auction record'

Article/Newspaper

Jon Swaine, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2013, English

'Francis Bacon 'nearly lost eye in assault by psychopathic lover''

Article/Newspaper

Matthew Moore, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2009, English

'Van Gogh's 'heirs' battle against attempt to bring home the Bacon'

Article/Newspaper

Henry Samuel, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2010, English

'Francis Bacon inspired by Nazi propaganda'

Review/Publication

Jennifer O'Mahony, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2012, English

'Francis Bacon portrait sells for £18 million'

Article/Newspaper

Florence Waters, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2011, English

'Lucian Freud: rare artist painting by friend Francis Bacon fetches £23m'

Article/Newspaper

Andrew Hough, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2011, English

'Long live mortality'

Review/Exhibition

Sarah Crompton, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2006, English

'The Mystery of Appearance, Haunch of Venison, Seven Magazine review'

Review/Exhibition

Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2011, English

'Bacon the rebel puts his art on show'

Review/Exhibition

Evening Standard,London, 1955, English

'ART GUESTS TOAST MR. BACON'

Review/Exhibition

Evening Standard,London, 1960, English

'BACON – THE ART OF SUCCESS'

Review/Exhibition

David Carritt, Evening Standard,London, 1960, English

'Bacon: the painter who evokes horror'

Review/Exhibition

David Carritt, Evening Standard,London, 1962, English

'THE PRIVATE HELLS OF FRANCIS BACON...'

Review/Exhibition

John Richardson, Evening Standard,London, 1963, English

'Highest honour'

Article/Newspaper

Evening Standard,London, 1970, English

'Francis Bacon on drug charge'

Article/Newspaper

Evening Standard,London, 1970, English

'Francis Bacon is remanded on bail'

Article/Newspaper

Evening Standard,London, 1970, English

'Andrew Barrow remembers a lively afternoon with Francis Bacon in 1975'

Article/Newspaper

Andrew Barrow, Telegraph Magazine,London, 2013, English

'POSSESSED BY DEVILS'

Article/Newspaper

Melvyn Bragg, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2013, English

'Bacon double exposure'

Review/Exhibition

Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2010, English

'A flawed comparison'

Review/Exhibition

Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Sunday Telegraph,London, 2012, English

''Grudge' story in Francis Bacon drugs case'

Article/Newspaper

John Miller, Evening Standard,London, 1971, English

'When the copying had to stop...'

Article/Newspaper

Richard Cork, Evening Standard,London, 1971, English

'Why Bacon will paint his life story'

Review/Exhibition

Richard Cork, Evening Standard,London, 1971, English

'Bacon and the road to Grand Guignol glory'

Review/Exhibition

Richard Cork, Evening Standard,London, 1971, English

'Beware the feeble Forties!'

Review/Exhibition

Richard Cork, Evening Standard,London, 1972, English

Article/Newspaper

Norman Chisholm, Evening Standard,London, 1977, English

'Whoever this is, he could go for £11 million'

Article/Newspaper

Colin Gleadell, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2011, English

'Francis Bacon/Henry Moore'

Review/Exhibition

Alastair Smart, The Daily Telegraph,London, 2013, English