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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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'Recent Works by Moore and Bacon'

Richard Herner, Arts Review, 1965, English

'Francis Bacon'

Paul Oliver, Arts Review, 1967, English

'London: Francis Bacon a Second Fuseli'

Patrick Heron, Arts Magazine, 1957, English

'London'

Alan Bowness, Arts Magazine, 1960, English

'Los Angeles: Bacon, Bloom, Lebrun'

Charles S. Kessler, Arts Magazine, 1961, English

'More Than Meets the Camera's Eye'

Judith Bumpus, Art Magazine, 1981, English

'Exhibitions in London'

Lawrence Alloway, Art International, 1958, English

'Francis Bacon as a Mannerist'

Mark Roskill, Art International, 1963, English

'Lettre de Suisse'

Jean-Luc Daval, Art International, 1975, French

'Los Angeles Newsletter'

Gerald Nordland, Art International, 1975, English

'Paris Letter'

Fenella Crichton, Art International, 1977, English

'Francis Bacon and "The Waste Land"'

Michael Peppiatt, Art International, 1984, English

'Le Francis Bacon de Gilles Deleuze'

René Micha, Art International, 1982, French

'Francis Bacon: The Anatomy of Enigma'

Michael Peppiatt, Art International, 1984, English

'Could There be a School of London?'

Michael Peppiatt, Art International, 1987, English

'Francis Bacon: Reality Conveyed by a Lie'

Michael Peppiatt, Art International, 1987, English

'Summer Ghosts'

John Welchman, Art International, 1987, English

'Entretiens avec Francis Bacon 1963-89'

Michael Peppiatt, Art International, 1998, French

'In Francis Bacon's Studio'

Michael Peppiatt, Art International, 1989, English

'Under Bacon's Black Sun'

Timothy Hyman, Art International, 1989, English

'Francis Bacon'

Max Wykes-Joyce, Art & Artists, 1985, English

'Francis Bacon'

Silvia Robertazzi, L'Uomo Vogue, 1990, Italian

'Pintar como vivir'

Pablo Llorca, Vogue, 1992, Spanish

'Francis Bacon'

Eric Newton, Time and Tide, 1957, English

'Mr. Francis Bacon in the Woodshed'

Keith Roberts, Time and Tide, 1962, English

'The Artist Who Found Truth in Extremes'

Christopher Lloyd, Catholic Herald, 2006, English

'British Art Today'

John Coplans, Artforum, 1963, English

'Poetry of Vision'

Clement Greenberg, Artforum, 1968, English

'New York'

Robert Pincus-Witten, Artforum, 1969, English

'Book of Daniel'

Brian Sewell, Literary Review, 1993, English

'Circumspect Approach'

Gilbert de Botton, Literary Review, 1996, English

'We Forget That He Could Not Draw'

William Packer, Literary Review, 2000, English

'An Old Man's Metier'

John McEwen, Literary Review, 2007, English

'Francis Bacon, Marlborough'

Klaus Ottmann, Flash Art, 1984, English

'Gilles Deleuze: Logica della sensazione'

Gabriele Perretta, Flash Art, 1996, Italian

'Why Bacon is a Great Artist'

Andrew Brighton, Art Monthly, 1985, English

'Francis Bacon'

Allen Robertson, Time Out, 1993, English