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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

Francesca Marini, Skira,Milan, 2008, Spanish

Francis Bacon

Francesca Marini, Skira,Geneva, 2008, French

Francis Bacon

Francesca Marini, Skira,Milan, 2008, Italian

A Paradise Lost: The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain 1935-55

David Mellor, Lund Humphries in association with the Barbican Art Gallery,London, 1987, English

Francis Bacon: Paintings

Marlborough Fine Art Ltd London, 1985, English

Francis Bacon: peintures récentes

Galerie Maeght-Lelong,Paris, 1984, French, English

Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection

William S. Lieberman, Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York, 1989, English

Francis Bacon: The Human Body

David Sylvester, Hayward Gallery,London, University of California Press,Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1998, English

L'Ecole de Londres: De Bacon à Bevan

Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol,Paris, 1998, French

Фрэнсис Бэкон: живопись [Francis Bacon: Painting]

The British Council,London, Marlborough Gallery,London, Централ’ный Дом Художника [Central House of Artists],Moscow, 1988, Russian

Figurabile: Francis Bacon

Achille Bonito Oliva, Electa,Milan, 1993, English

프랜시스 베이컨 [Francis Bacon]

Anna Maria Wieland, 예경 [Yekyong Publishing Co.],Seoul, 2010, Korean

Triptychon: drei Studien zu Francis Bacon

Jonathan Littell, Hanser Berlin,Berlin, 2013, German

仿培根的三習作 [Three Studies after Francis Bacon]

Jonathan Littell, 行人出版社 [Pedestrian Press],Taipei, 2014, Chinese, Traditional

Trittico: tre studi da Francis Bacon

Jonathan Littell, Giulio Einaudi editore,Turin, 2014, Italian

弗朗西斯·培根 [Francis Bacon]

Martin Hammer, 广西美术出版社 [Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing House],Nanning, 2014, Chinese, Simplified

Francis Bacon

Martin Hammer, Phaidon,Paris, 2014, French

Francis Bacon: Study for Portrait of Van Gogh

Arts Council Collection, Southbank,London, 1994, English

Draw: Conversations around the legacy of drawing

Judith Winter, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art ,Middlesbrough, 2007, English

Bacon

Rudy Chiappini, Skira,Milan, 2008, English

Francis Bacon: Die Gewalt des Faktischen

Armin Zweite, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen,Düsseldorf, Hirmer,Munich, 2006, German

The New Decade: 22 European Painters and Sculptors

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Museum of Modern Art,New York, 1955, English

Masters of British Painting, 1800-1950

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Museum of Modern Art,New York, 1956, English

Bacon

Esther Darley, Hans Janssen, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag,Den Haag, Waanders Uitgevers,Zwolle, 2001, Dutch

'Wrestling with Francis Bacon'

Simon Ofield, Oxford Art Journal, 2001, English

'Varying the Self: Bacon's Versions of van Gogh'

Brendan Prendeville, Oxford Art Journal, 2004, English

'Francis Bacon's correspondence with Sir Colin Anderson'

Francis Bacon, Adrian Clark, The British Art Journal, 2007, English

Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings

Marlborough Fine Art Ltd London, 1967, French, English

Soutine/Bacon

Marzina Marzetti, Helly Nahmad Gallery,New York, 2011, English

A Guest of Honour: From Francis Bacon to Peter Doig

Andrea Hofinger, Toni Stooss, Museum der Moderne,Salzburg, 2008, English

Bacon

Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna,Turin, 1962, Italian

A Guest of Honour: Francis Bacon und sein Umkreis

Andrea Hofinger, Toni Stooss, Museum der Moderne,Salzburg, 2008, German

Picasso and Modern British Art

James Beechey, Chris Stephens, Tate Publishing,London, 2012, English

From London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj

The British Council,London, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,Edinburgh, 1995, English

The Big Blue

Pilar Ordovas, Ordovas London, 2015, English