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    • ''Francis Bacon' Tate Britain 11 September 2008-4 January 2009 (and two publications)'
    • ''Lost' Bacon painting expected to fetch £1.5m'
    • ''Lost' Bacon to be sold at auction'
    • '...and moreover'
    • 'A British Outsider Embraced With a French Blockbuster'
    • 'A Course of Severe and Arduous Trials': Bacon, Beckett and Spurious Freemasonry in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland
    • 'A Critic's Choice of Pictures'
    • 'A Magnificent Mischief-Maker: To be in Francis Bacon's company was to be dazzled and confused, seduced and stunned'
    • 'A New York letter: Francis Bacon'
    • 'A Note on the Development of Francis Bacon's Painting'
    • 'A Question of Attribution'
    • 'A School or Not a School'
    • 'A Soho soul made of wild brushstrokes'
    • 'A Trail of Human Presence: On Some Early Paintings of Francis Bacon'
    • 'A brush with ebullient despair'
    • 'A critic saves his Bacon'
    • 'A dark prophet'
    • 'A genius? I say rotten'
    • 'A master of deep disquiet'
    • 'A mind on fire'
    • 'A random view of London pleasures'
    • 'A range of loners'
    • 'A vision of the truth behind the mask'
    • 'Academic Myths and Private Images'
    • 'All the pulsations of a person'
    • 'Ambivalent Homecomings: Louis le Brocquy, Francis Bacon and the Mechanics of Canonization'
    • 'An interview with Clement Greenberg'
    • 'Animal houses'
    • 'Another Look at Bacon: Newfound Canvases Shed More Light on a Master'
    • 'Any way that you slice it'
    • 'Apparitions of evil: Mr. Francis Bacon's new paintings'
    • 'Around the galleries'
    • 'Art Dispatch from Europe: Düsseldorf. Francis Bacon'
    • 'Art In Review: Francis Bacon'
    • 'Art Stars and Plasters on the Wounds: Why Have There Been No Great Irish Artists?'
    • 'Art and Artists'
    • 'Art and Artists: James Tissot Vulgar Society'
    • 'Art attack: Portrait of Bacon's violent lover for auction'
    • 'Art exhibitions: Mr. Francis Bacon'
    • 'Art house'
    • 'Art in London: Paintings, Pleasant and Unpleasant: Francis Bacon Studies'
    • 'Art in the modern manner'
    • 'Art in the modern manner'
    • 'Art in the modern manner'
    • 'Art in the modern manner'
    • 'Art news from London: Francis Bacon'
    • 'Art news from Los Angeles: Bacon, Bloom; Los Angeles group'
    • 'Art of a New Francis Bacon Is at Met'
    • 'Art'
    • 'Art, death and immortality over a naked lunch’
    • 'Art: 13 New Works By Francis Bacon'
    • 'Art: Recent Paintings By Francis Bacon'
    • 'Artist of bleak vision, composer of mystical faith'
    • 'Artist remanded'
    • 'Artist who mapped out hell'
    • 'Artist's anniversary marked'
    • 'Artists of despair'
    • 'At $142.4 Million, Triptych Is the Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold at an Auction'
    • 'At the Galleries'
    • 'At the Galleries'
    • 'At the Galleries: As Bacon Sees Us'
    • 'At the Galleries: Bacon and Sironi'
    • 'At the Galleries: Francis Bacon'
    • 'At the Galleries: Nightmare'
    • 'At the Galleries: Trio'
    • 'At the Galleries: Vertebrate'
    • 'At the Lefevre'
    • 'Auerbach, Bacon and Smith'
    • 'Authenticity of Bacon self-portrait'
    • 'Bacon 'blackmailed' by art gallery owner, court is told in dispute over £100m fees'
    • 'Bacon - II'
    • 'Bacon Goes To Moscow'
    • 'Bacon Picasso: Au Nom du Pair'
    • 'Bacon and Bourgeois Save the Biennale: But Leave the Olive in a Pickle' 
    • 'Bacon and Giacometti: Likeness and Difference'
    • 'Bacon and Moore again in Powerful Relation'
    • 'Bacon assessed'
    • 'Bacon dripping with confidence'
    • 'Bacon estate is 'trying it on' court is told'
    • 'Bacon estate sues art dealer'
    • 'Bacon falls violently in love'
    • 'Bacon figure may be £1.5m'
    • 'Bacon film hit by dispute over who owns artist's words'
    • 'Bacon fortune is left to companion'
    • 'Bacon gave secret $4m to beloved banker'
    • 'Bacon hangs his favourites'
    • 'Bacon in New York'
    • 'Bacon in Paris'
    • 'Bacon in close focus'
    • 'Bacon leaves £10m fortune to friend'
    • 'Bacon left his best friend an £11m fortune. So where has it all gone?'
    • 'Bacon not artist of his 'self-portrait'?'
    • 'Bacon painting in auction record'
    • 'Bacon painting settles £680,000 tax demand'
    • 'Bacon papal portrait sells for record £14m'
    • 'Bacon record tops £3.9m on a British night out'
    • 'Bacon reigns in Spain'
    • 'Bacon saved'
    • 'Bacon tops Sotheby's art auction'
    • 'Bacon triptych sets sale record'
    • 'Bacon wanted to bin these 'bits and bobs' - last night they sold for £1.1m'
    • 'Bacon's "Black" Triptychs'
    • 'Bacon's 'worthless' gift to fetch £2m'
    • 'Bacon's Course'
    • 'Bacon's bleak look at the business of growing old'
    • 'Bacon's estate 'is trying it on''
    • 'Bacon's got the guts'
    • 'Bacon's letters to Sutherland'
    • 'Bacon's meal ticket goes on sale'
    • 'Bacon's rare portraits of female lover go to auction'
    • 'Bacon's screaming pope for sale'
    • 'Bacon's theatre of the absurd'
    • 'Bacon's works on despair fetch six figures'
    • 'Bacon, Half-Baked'
    • 'Bacon, White, de Maistre and a reds-topped desk'
    • 'Bacon/Moore: Flesh and Bone'
    • 'Bacon: a mystery in the East'
    • 'Bacon: the rough guide'
    • 'Beaux Arts Gallery: studies of movement with Mr. Wirth-Miller'
    • 'Bed or dais'
    • 'Best of British Bacon in Russian art show'
    • 'Books'
    • 'Books: Interviews with Francis Bacon 1962-1979'
    • 'Books: Interviews with Francis Bacon'
    • 'Bring Bacon home: The art world continues to neglect our native genius'
    • 'British stars and Scythian gold'
    • 'Briton Speaks About Pain and Painting'
    • 'Brushes with the Bottle'
    • 'Brushes with the soldiery of the canvas'
    • 'Buyers stampede for 'bleak' Bacons'
    • 'Capital deposit north of the border'
    • 'Carcasses and crucifixes'
    • 'Chaos theory'
    • 'Claim for Bacon'
    • 'Classic Bacon: Triptych could fetch record £35m'
    • 'Collecting: Signature tune'
    • 'Crisis in Paint'
    • 'Cross-currents'
    • 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
    • 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
    • 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
    • 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
    • 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
    • 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: London'
    • 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: Switzerland'
    • 'Current shows and comments: "If winter comes..."'
    • 'Current shows and comments: A bit of chiffon'
    • 'Current shows and comments: On the significance of a word'
    • 'Current shows and comments: The Dark is Light Enough: Francis Bacon at the Marlborough'
    • 'Current shows and comments: The academic challenge'
    • 'Damien Hirst - Francis Bacon'
    • 'Dealer 'snatched Bacon paintings away''
    • 'Deleuze, Gilles. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation'
    • 'Demons and beefcake - the other side of Bacon / Sadomasochism and shoplifting sprees: Bacon's legacy revisited'
    • 'Disputed Bacon artworks go on display'
    • 'Disturbed Ground: Francis Bacon, Traumatic Memory and the Gothic'
    • 'Diving deep into darkness'
    • 'Donation a coup for Ireland'
    • 'Eerie resonance as Moore and Bacon capture a savage dignity'
    • 'English Contemporary Art'
    • 'Et Bacon se mit à danser'
    • 'European painting in LA: A grab bag of well-worn issues'
    • 'Evaluating artists'
    • 'Evolution of a maverick genius'
    • 'Ex-convict gets the spoils of Bacon's £30m legacy'
    • 'Excavations in the artist's studio'
    • 'Exhibition Reviews: Bacon/Picasso: Paris'
    • 'Exhibition Reviews: Bacon; Hirst: London'
    • 'Exhibition Reviews: Edinburgh and Luxembourg: The School of London'
    • 'Exhibition Reviews: Evil: Turin'
    • 'Exhibition Reviews: Francis Bacon: Norwich, Wisconsin and Buffalo'
    • 'Exhibition Reviews: Francis Bacon: Vienna and Basel'
    • 'Exhibition Reviews: London: Francis Bacon'
    • 'Exhibition Reviews: New York: Winter painting exhibitions'
    • 'Exhibition Reviews: Paris and Munich: Francis Bacon'
    • 'Exhibition Reviews: São Paulo: The 1998 Bienal'
    • 'Exhibitions'
    • 'Exhibitions: Francis Bacon: Dublin and Compton Verney'
    • 'Explosion at San Giovanni in Laterano, Summer 1993: Notes for Francis Bacon's Figure with Meat'
    • 'Face to face with the dogs of war'
    • 'Face to face with young genius?'
    • 'Farewell to flat, goodbye to square: London Commentary'
    • 'Fascinating Facture'
    • 'Fifty years of hurt'
    • 'Finding the Matisse in Bacon'
    • 'Food for Thought'
    • 'For sale: portraits that Bacon wanted to dump in a skip'
    • 'Forbidden photos pulled from show'
    • 'Fragments of time'
    • 'Francis Bacon - 'I Wanted to Paint the Scream''
    • 'Francis Bacon Archive, Tate Britain, London'
    • 'Francis Bacon acquitted on drug charge'
    • 'Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud'
    • 'Francis Bacon and Walter Sickert: 'images which unlock other images''
    • 'Francis Bacon and a vision of perfection'
    • 'Francis Bacon and the Fortunes of Poetry'
    • 'Francis Bacon and the Geometry of Fear'
    • 'Francis Bacon and the meaning of life'
    • 'Francis Bacon and the tradition of art: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna'
    • 'Francis Bacon artwork sets auction record in NY'
    • 'Francis Bacon at Eighty'
    • 'Francis Bacon at the Metropolitan Museum'
    • 'Francis Bacon en sa terre natale'
    • 'Francis Bacon heute'
    • 'Francis Bacon in Paris: figures in a room'
    • 'Francis Bacon in Venice'
    • 'Francis Bacon in the 1950s'
    • 'Francis Bacon o la pintura en carne viva'
    • 'Francis Bacon on drug charge'
    • 'Francis Bacon paintings boost Britain'
    • 'Francis Bacon was a shock merchant, not a Nazi'
    • 'Francis Bacon'
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    • 'Francis Bacon's Paintings'
    • 'Francis Bacon's correspondence with Sir Colin Anderson'
    • 'Francis Bacon's imagery less intense'
    • 'Francis Bacon's new paintings'
    • 'Francis Bacon's plea for costs rejected'
    • 'Francis Bacon, 82, Artist of the Macabre, Dies: Francis Bacon, Painter, Is Dead at 82'
    • 'Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: Cheim and Read'
    • 'Francis Bacon, confounder of art critics: Master of ebullient despair'
    • 'Francis Bacon, the Papal Portraits of 1953'
    • 'Francis Bacon/Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone, Ashmolean Museum'
    • 'Francis Bacon: "De-Faced" Self-Portraits'
    • 'Francis Bacon: "about being in pain"'
    • 'Francis Bacon: A Kind of Grandeur'
    • 'Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty'
    • 'Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty'
    • 'Francis Bacon: A great, shocking, eccentric painter'
    • 'Francis Bacon: Artist of Endgame'
    • 'Francis Bacon: Back to Degas'
    • 'Francis Bacon: Centre Georges Pompidou'
    • 'Francis Bacon: Henrietta Moraes'
    • 'Francis Bacon: London'
    • 'Francis Bacon: Lost and Found'
    • 'Francis Bacon: Marlborough Gallery'
    • 'Francis Bacon: Metropolitan Museum of Art'
    • 'Francis Bacon: New transmutations of an autumn rose'
    • 'Francis Bacon: Painting after Photography'
    • 'Francis Bacon: Self-Portrait, 1972'
    • 'Francis Bacon: South Kensington London 1982'
    • 'Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait - Francis Bacon: Incunabula'
    • 'Francis Bacon: The Authority of Flesh'
    • 'Francis Bacon: The Studio as Symbol'
    • 'Francis Bacon: Tony Shafrazi Gallery'
    • 'Francis Bacon: contradicciones sublimadas'
    • 'Francis Bacon: the Anatomy of Horror'
    • 'Francis Bacon: une bouche comme un Sahara'
    • 'Francis and me'
    • 'French and English art: New trends in painting and sculpture'
    • 'Freudian slops'
    • 'From London: Some Anglo-Saxon intentions and responses'
    • 'From the Archives: James Thrall Soby and Francis Bacon'
    • 'Galleries: A celebration of painting'
    • 'Galleries: A natural talent for symbolism'
    • 'Galleries: Bacon's new creativity'
    • 'Galleries: The thoughtful process of falling off a log'
    • 'Gallery 'cheated Bacon out of tens of millions''
    • 'Genre: Twentieth Century'
    • 'Gossip of a gay genius'
    • 'Gowrie’s 'outrageous' decision stops lottery cash for artist’s story: Bacon love film funding blocked'
    • 'Greatest living painter'
    • 'Handyman brings home the Bacon for art sleuths'
    • 'Hanover Gallery: Mr. Bacon's paintings'
    • 'Hanover Gallery: Mr. Francis Bacon's paintings'
    • 'Heaven and hell'
    • 'Hello Francis'
    • 'Help the Lazy'
    • 'High prices for modern British pictures'
    • 'His life was a commitment to excess. So it's no surprise that some portraits had two heads' 
    • 'Homage to work and love'
    • 'Homosexuality out of the margins and in the heart'
    • 'Horror and Harmony'
    • 'How Italian artists make a fortune faking Bacon'
    • 'How to freeze the human body'
    • 'Hugh Lane gallery profits from 'ghastly misunderstanding' over Bacon's studio'
    • 'Hundreds of 'lost' Bacon sketches surface in studio'
    • 'Hunt for 'missing' works of Francis Bacon'
    • 'Hunting of the ark: men, beasts and gods'
    • 'Hysterical Painting'
    • 'I can't draw, said Bacon'
    • 'I had nobody else to paint'
    • 'I offered Bacon £50,000 a picture but rival blackmailed him over tax bill, claims dealer'
    • 'Icarus or the Walking-Wounded'
    • 'If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon's Would Shriek'
    • 'Image of the Week: theatre of art'
    • 'Imaginable Furies'
    • 'In Camera - Francis Bacon'
    • 'In a class of their own'
    • 'In memoriam: David Sylvester: The art of the interview'
    • 'In praise of rudeness'
    • 'International Studio: Master of the Monstrous'
    • 'Isabel Rawsthorne'
    • 'Isabel Rawsthorne'
    • 'It Ain't the Meat'
    • 'John Edwards'
    • 'John Edwards: Francis Bacon's model companion, in good times and in bad'
    • 'Junk Shock'
    • 'Just blood, sweat and fears'
    • 'King of pain / pope of pop / memo from Turner'
    • 'Knights of the Razor'
    • 'Lefevre gallery: new English paintings'
    • 'Letter from London'
    • 'Letter from Moscow: Francis Bacon'
    • 'Life with thugs'
    • 'London Galleries: Convulsions of Mind and Body'
    • 'London Letter: Bacon, Davie, Kokoschka'
    • 'Lying figure: Francis Bacon and the female nude'
    • 'Madrid: Francis Bacon: Galerie Marlborough'
    • 'Master of isolation'
    • 'Matthew Smith - A Painter's Tribute'
    • 'Me, myself and eye'
    • 'Mirror of his age'
    • 'Modern painting and sculpture: Young Contemporaries exhibition'
    • 'Moon walking'
    • 'Moves to save Oxford's Bacon'
    • 'Mr. Bacon's comment on humanity'
    • 'Mr. Bacon's new paintings: African animals'
    • 'Mr. Francis Bacon'
    • 'Mr. Francis Bacon'
    • 'Mr. Francis Bacon'
    • 'Mr. Francis Bacon's new paintings: Extraordinary use of photographs'
    • 'Mr. Francis Bacon's virtuosity: Van Gogh translated'
    • 'Muriel Belcher'
    • 'My years at the Tate'
    • 'Naked truths on the French Riviera'
    • 'National art treasures lost for lack of money'
    • 'Native Born'
    • 'New Work by Henry Moore and Francis Bacon'
    • 'New York Letter'
    • 'New York commentary'
    • 'New York: Francis Bacon'
    • 'New acquisition of six unfinished paintings by Francis Bacon'
    • 'New acquisitions at the Tate: old and recent works'
    • 'News and Views from New York: New York I at the Alan Gallery'
    • 'No friends, by request, at Bacon's farewell'
    • 'No signs of a City crash crisis as Bacon brings home £26m record'
    • 'Not all Birch'
    • 'Not for the sentimental'
    • 'Notes from Paris and London: Bacon and Wols at the Hanover Gallery'
    • 'Nothing but bums and drunks'
    • 'Obituary: Francis Bacon: Genius formed in the blackness of the Blitz'
    • 'Obituary: Francis Bacon: Genius formed in the blackness of the Blitz'
    • 'Obituary: Isabel Lambert: More than muse material'
    • 'Obituary: Mr. Peter Watson: Modern patron of art'
    • 'Old acquaintance'
    • 'On a diet of oysters and despair'
    • 'On the Strange Case of Francis Bacon'
    • 'Outrageous Bacon'
    • 'PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK NO 96: BACON'S STUDY FOR PORTRAIT II - AFTER THE LIFE MASK OF WILLIAM BLAKE (1955)'
    • 'Painted into a corner'
    • 'Painted screams'
    • 'Painter busting with exhilarated despair'
    • 'Painting and sculpture'
    • 'Painting bought in 1953 may earn students £700,000'
    • 'Painting pictures in Soho and Greenwich Village'
    • 'Paris Letter: November'
    • 'Paris: L'imaginaire de Francis Bacon'
    • 'Passages to Paint: Francis Bacon's Studio Practice'
    • 'Picture choice: A direct hit on the nerves'
    • 'Pictures by a Sunday painter turn out to be a valuable slice of Bacon'
    • 'Pictures from an Irish exhibitionist'
    • 'Pigment at its limit'
    • 'Pittsburgh prizes for Britain'
    • 'Pleasures of pounding the flesh'
    • 'Pop Art since 1949'
    • 'Pop Since 1949'
    • 'Pope on the ropes'
    • 'Positioning in Representation'
    • 'Power of three: Bacon triptych emerges from Tehran storeroom' 
    • 'Preaching art'
    • 'Private View: Francis Bacon'
    • 'Private treasures go public'
    • 'Prophet of a pitiless world'
    • 'Question of Bacon's private life'
    • 'Raffish old master of the elusive'
    • 'Rare chance to own a Francis Bacon original - from the artist's tufted period'
    • 'Realism in painting'
    • 'Realism versus Realism in British Art of the 1950s'
    • 'Reality reassured'
    • 'Record £26,000 paid for a Francis Bacon'
    • 'Reflections on the Venice Biennale'
    • 'Reg Butler and Francis Bacon'
    • 'Regarding the pain: noise in the art of Francis Bacon'
    • 'Regrets: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud and Jasper Johns'
    • 'Relative presences: A roomful of Bacon at the Tate'
    • 'Remaking Bacon'
    • 'Repeat of Orwell work well worth while'
    • 'Rich pickings: Friend who inherited Bacon's £11m fortune went on 11-year spending spree'
    • 'Rina Arya: Francis Bacon. Painting in a Godless World'
    • 'Robert Melville has a look at a book about Francis Bacon'
    • 'Robert Melville: The Last Interview'
    • 'Round the Galleries: Crisis Under the Skin'
    • 'Round the London Galleries: The Catalan Magician'
    • 'Saving Bacon'
    • 'Sex, violence and painting'
    • 'Sexing the Canvas: Calling on the Medium'
    • 'Shafts from Apollo's Bow - The Return of the Problem Picture'
    • 'Show that brings home the Bacon to a new market'
    • 'Sides of Bacon: A portrait of the artist by his friends'
    • 'Sights of Moscow'
    • 'Signs of A New Conservatism In Taste'
    • 'Six New Masters'
    • 'Sketches of pain'
    • 'Snapshots of sozzled Soho'
    • 'Soak it up'
    • 'Soho's days of wine and poses and whisky galore'
    • 'Strangers in a show'
    • 'Studio mess recreated for £1.6m'
    • 'Studios and Private Faces I & II'
    • 'Swastika plus cricket pad equals art'
    • 'Sympathy for the devil'
    • 'Talk at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1971'
    • 'Tate Gallery: Exhibition of recent acquisitions'
    • 'The 1930 Look in British Decoration'
    • 'The 1970 Pittsburgh International'
    • 'The American way with art: Francis Bacon - Recent Paintings'
    • 'The Anglo-French art centre'
    • 'The Art World: Aesthetics of Mutilation'
    • 'The Art World: Optimist'
    • 'The Art of Francis Bacon'
    • 'The Artist Speaks?'
    • 'The Body Unbound: The postmodern aesthetics of Francis Bacon'
    • 'The Bones and the Flesh: Henry Moore and Francis Bacon'
    • 'The Born Again Dubliner'
    • 'The Brutality of Fact'
    • 'The Chaos of Creation'
    • 'The Circus'
    • 'The Consummate Fragmentarian'
    • 'The Contemporary Spectrum'
    • 'The Devil in Mr Bacon: Film of the Week: Love is the Devil'
    • 'The Fugitive Body: Bacon's Fistula'
    • 'The Horrific Theme in Visual Art'
    • 'The Horrific Vision of Mr. Francis Bacon'
    • 'The Investment File: Francis Bacon'
    • 'The Master of the Macabre, Francis Bacon'
    • 'The Mather Award: Citation / On the strange case of Frances Bacon'
    • 'The Modernity of Late Sickert'
    • 'The Narrative of Perception and the Perception of Narrative'
    • 'The Paintings of Francis Bacon'
    • 'The Primal Cry of Horror: The A-theology of Francis Bacon'
    • 'The Problem of Francis Bacon'
    • 'The Queen of Soho'
    • 'The Redfern gallery'
    • 'The SR Interview: "I Think About Death Every Day"'
    • 'The School of London in Vienna'
    • 'The Violence of Paint'
    • 'The ambiguous precision of Francis Bacon'
    • 'The art of infuriating: Giles Waterfield on Bacon'
    • 'The art of ordered chaos'
    • 'The artist as beloved adventurer'
    • 'The artist formerly known as British'
    • 'The beast within'
    • 'The book that Bacon banned'
    • 'The curse of the buddha and other whodunits'
    • 'The deceit of the real'
    • 'The drawings he didn't want you to see'
    • 'The dream and the nightmare'
    • 'The fine art of drinking at Muriel's bar'
    • 'The howl of an iconoclast'
    • 'The human zoo'
    • 'The link between art and life'
    • 'The making of an artist - from weakling to enigmatic master'
    • 'The many faces of Bacon'
    • 'The matter of life and death'
    • 'The paintings of Mr. Bacon: A prophet of doom'
    • 'The pope of putrefaction'
    • 'The scream of consciousness'
    • 'The sleazy side of Bacon'
    • 'The tail wags the gods'
    • 'The worst is not yet'
    • 'This Teeming Womb, This Non-Isle, This Non-England'
    • 'This too, too squalid flesh'
    • 'Three Bacon paintings to be sold for £2m'
    • 'Three Bacon paintings up for auction'
    • 'Too Much Reality?'
    • 'Too risqué for Iran, Bacon's 'lost' painting goes on show'
    • 'Too risqué for Iran, Bacon's nudes may be shown in London'
    • 'Touching the void'
    • 'Turner at the Academy'
    • 'Twentieth-Century Choice at the Marlborough'
    • 'Two British art patrons of the 1940s and 1950s: Sir Colin Anderson and Peter Watson'
    • 'Two men, and nanny made three'
    • 'Undercooked Bacon'
    • 'Unseen paintings may provide evidence in Bacon court case'
    • 'Views and News of Art in America'
    • 'Vile bodies'
    • 'Visions of a Violent Century In Francis Bacon's Paintings: Bacon's Visions of a Violent, Disjointed Century'
    • 'Visual feast of more than just Bacon'
    • 'Vogue Arts: Francis Bacon'
    • 'Vulgar Pictures: Bacon, de Kooning, and the Figure under Abstraction'
    • 'Wealth tax and the living artist'
    • 'What recession? Bacon sells for £26.3m'
    • 'What the critics said: Bacon in his prime'
    • 'Why Bacon was driven to destruction'
    • 'Works by Derrick Greaves'
    • 'World of art pays tribute to Bacon'
    • 'Yale reopens its key Anglo file'
    • 'You should see his bedroom... Why we need clutter'
    • '£1.8m price tag for 'lost' Bacon painting'
    • '£9.5m Bacon out of Tate's reach'
    • 'Бэкон in Moscow'
    • 7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio
    • Bacon a Brera: e quaranta disegni di Grosz in sosta a Milano
    • Bacon and Sutherland
    • Bacon
    • Bacon
    • Bacon's Arena
    • Bacon-Picasso: The Life of Images
    • Bacon-Picasso: la vie des images
    • Bacon: 1909-1992
    • Bacon: 1909-1992: Deep Beneath the Surface of Things
    • Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits
    • Bacon: monstre de peinture
    • Caravaggio Bacon
    • Changing Perceptions: Milestones in Twentieth-Century British Portraiture
    • Collections
    • Conversas com Francis Bacon: O cheiro do sangue humano não desgruda seus olhos de mim
    • Conversazione con Francis Bacon
    • De Manet à Bacon: La collection Jacqueline Delubac
    • El olor a sangre humana no se me quita de los ojos: conversaciones con Francis Bacon
    • Entrevistas con Francis Bacon
    • Erica Brausen: Premier Marchand de Francis Bacon
    • Exhibitions
    • Fondation Beyeler
    • Francis Bacon (1909-1992): Three Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion c. 1944'
    • Francis Bacon - Sansningens logik
    • Francis Bacon Bibliography
    • Francis Bacon Kreuzigung: Versuch, eine gewalttätige Wirklichkeit neu zu sehen
    • Francis Bacon and Nazi Propaganda
    • Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self
    • Francis Bacon and the Masters
    • Francis Bacon and the Tradition of Art
    • Francis Bacon and the art of the past
    • Francis Bacon in Dublin
    • Francis Bacon in your Blood: A Memoir
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