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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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TRACES DU SACRÉ

Centre Georges Pompidou,Paris, 2008, French

Paint Made Flesh

Mark W. Scala, Frist Center for the Visual Arts,Nashville, 2009, English

LE CORPS - IMAGE AU XXe SIÈCLE

FAGE éditions Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Lyon, 2010, French

Surrounding Bacon and Warhol

Gunnar B. Kvaran, Grete Årbu, Astrup Fearnley Museet,Oslo, 2011, English, Norwegian

PORTRAITS: COLLECTIONS DU CENTRE POMPIDOU

Fondation Pierre Gianadda,Martigny, 2012, French

20th Century Masters: The Human Figure

Standard Bank Gallery,Johannesburg, 2012, English

RETRATOS: OBRAS MAESTRAS, CENTRE POMPIDOU

Fundación Mapfre, Salas de exposiciones recoletos Madrid, Centre Georges Pompidou,Paris, 2012, Spanish

Leiris & Co.: Picasso, Masson, Miró, Giacometti, Lam, Bacon...

Agnès de la Beaumelle, Marie-Laure Bernadac, Denis Hollier, Centre Pompidou-Metz,Metz, 2015, French

The Abelló Collection: A MODERN TASTE FOR EUROPEAN MASTERS

Almudena Ros de Barbero, Meadows Museum,Dallas, 2015, English

Francis Bacon: Monaco et la culture française

Martin Harrison, Albin Michel,Paris, Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation,Monte Carlo, 2016, French, English

Francis Bacon: De Picasso a Velázquez

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,Bilbao, Turner Madrid, 2016, Spanish, Basque

ECCE HOMO: The Human Images in Contemporary Art

National Museum of Art Osaka, 2016, Japanese, English

Queer British Art 1861-1967

Clare Barlow, Tate Publishing,London, 2017, English

La Escuela de Londres

Museo Picasso Malaga, 2017, Spanish

FROM SELFIE TO SELF-EXPRESSION

Saatchi Gallery London, Huawei Shenzhen, 2017, English

Nude: Masterpieces from Tate

Seoul Olympic Museum of Art Seoul, 2017, Korean, English

Poussin 'Le Massacre des Innocents' Picasso Bacon

Jeu de Paume du Domaine de Chantilly Chantilly, 2017, French

LOS MODERNOS: DIALOGUES FRANCE - MEXIQUE

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Lyon, 2017, French

REDS

Mnuchin Gallery New York, 2018, English

SACRED NOISE

Christie's London, 2018, English

Nude: Masterpieces from Tate

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Kaohsiung, 2018, Chinese, Traditional, English

Nude: Masterpieces from Tate [Guidebook]

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Kaohsiung, 2018, Chinese, Traditional, English

Bacon's Women

Ordovas New York, 2018, English

'Francis Bacon: il sublime demoniaco come degradazione e caduta dell'umanità'

Arturo Bovi, Capitolivm: rivista bimestrale del Comune di Roma, 1975, Italian

Bacon en toutes lettres

Musée national d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou,Paris, 2019, French, English

Francis Bacon: Books and Painting

Musée national d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou,Paris, Thames & Hudson,London, 2019, English

BACON en toutes lettres: L’exposition = BACON by the Book: The Exhibition [Album]

Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou Paris, 2019, French, English

Francis Bacon: Man and beast

Royal Academy of Arts London, 2021, English

'From icon to Bacon'

Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Independent, 1993, English

'Anglos and Omegas'

John Richardson, New Statesman,London, 1964, English

'I Think About Death Every Day'

Joshua Gilder, Flash Art, 1983, English

'The Hand of Laforgue's Shadow'

Stephen Romer, Times Literary Supplement,London, 1998, English

'Le grand jeu de Francis Bacon'

Michel Leiris, XXe Siècle, 1977, French