New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. FRANCIS BACON. Illus. text by Lawrence Alloway & 64 illus., many in color, 4to, wraps. 1963.
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New York. Marlborough-Gerson. FRANCIS BACON Recent Paintings. 66 pp. with intro. by Lawrence Gowing and 20 tipped-in color plates. 4to, wraps. 1968.

Paris. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. FRANCIS BACON. 140 pp., illustrated in color and b&w, including a number of folding plates. 4to, wraps. 1971.

Russell, John. FRANCIS BACON. 242 pp., 116 plates, about half of which are in color, and some folding. 4to, cloth. Greenwich, NYGS, 1971.

Rothenstein, John & Ronald Alley. FRANCIS BACON. 292 pp. including 206 monochrome & 27 tipped-in color plates, 4to, cloth. London, Thames & Hudson, 1964.
The catalogue raisonne of Bacon's paintings through 1964. Includes further documentation of abandoned and destroyed pictures as well as a selected artist biography and bibliography.

New York. Metropolitan Museum. FRANCIS BACON, Recent Paintings 1968-1974. 24 pp. text, folowed by 36 add'l color plates. Oblong 4to, wraps, 1975.
F-326.

Trucchi, Lorenza. FRANCIS BACON. 41 pp. text, followed by 180 mostly color, mostly full-page plates. Large 4to, cloth. London, Thames & Hudson. 1976.
F-330.

Leiris, Michel. FRANCIS BACON: Full Face and in Profile. 271 pp., 240 color plates. Large 4to, cloth. New York, Poligrafia, 2008.

Ades, Dawn and Andrew Forge. FRANCIS BACON. 246 pp. very well illustrated with color plates and b&w figures. Large 4to, cloth. New York, Abrams, 1985.

London. Marlborough. HENRY MOORE Recent Work / FRANCIS BACON Recent Work. Unpaginated flip-book catalogue, Moore at one end, Bacon at the other, illustrated in color and b&w. Small 4to, wraps. 1963.

New York. Marlborough Gallery. FRANCIS BACON Recent Paintings. 32 pp., 13 color plates. 4to, wraps. 1980.

London. Marlborough New London Gallery. FRANCIS BACON Recent Paintings. Unpaginated, illustrated in color and b&w. Small 4to, wraps. 1965.

New York, Marlborough Gallery. FRANCIS BACON Paintings of the Eighties. Artist interview by David Sylvester; 52 pp., 14 color plates, including several fold-outs. 4to, wraps. 1987.

New York. Marlborough Gallery. FRANCIS BACON. Recent Paintings. 38 pages, 11 color plates, 2 of which are fold-outs. 4to, wraps. 1984.

Gowing, Lawrence and Sam Hunter. FRANCIS BACON. Foreword by J.T. Demetrion. 187 pp. with 96 illustrations, including 83 color plates and 10 fold-outs. Large 4to, cloth. New York, Thames and Hudson, in association with Washington, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1990.
Published to accompany a travelling exhibition.

London. The Tate Gallery. FRANCIS BACON. Introduction by John Rothenstein; unpaginated, fully illustrated in color abnd b&w. 8vo, wraps. 1962.

Davies, Hugh and Sally Yard. FRANCIS BACON. 128 pp. include 113 plates and illustrations, many in color. Large 4to, wraps. New York, Abbeville, 1986.
First edition.

Venice. Museo Correr. Figurable FRANCIS BACON. Edited by Achile Bonito Oliva, text by David Sylvester et al; 134 pages, roughly 35 color plates, many gatefold, numerous color and b&w figures. Large 4to, wraps. Milan, Electa, 1993.
Text in English.

Sinclair, Andrew. FRANCIS BACON: His Life and Violent Times. 354 pp, illustrated. New York, Crown Publishers, 1993.

Sylvester, David. FRANCIS BACON Interviewed. 128 pp. text well illustrated with more than 100 b&w figures. 4to, wraps. New York, Pantheon, 1975.

Saint Paul. Fondation Maeght. BACON-FREUD Expressions. 208 pp. with 73 color illustrations. 4to, cloth. St. Paul, Fondation Maeght, 1995.

Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou. FRANCIS BACON. 336 pp. exhibition catalogue, sumptuously illustrated in b&w and colour, including numerous fold-out colour triptychs. Large, square 4to, wraps. 1996.
Text in French.

Sylvester, David. FRANCIS BACON: The Human Body. 101 pp., 32 color and 15 b&w illustrations, 5 gatefolds. 4to, wraps. London, Hayward Gallery, and Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1998.
This exhibition catalogue includes paintings that date from 1945 to the mid-1980s, including single canvases and triptychs from collections around the world.

Farr, Dennis, Michael Peppiatt and Sally Yard. FRANCIS BACON: A Retrospective. 240 pp., 114 color and 61 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. New York, Harry Abrams with the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 1999.
This substantial catalogue for a travelling exhibition offers an incisive and well-researched examination of Bacon's private life and career, illuminating his working methods and other aspects of his art that he was particularly reclusive about. Individual commentaries accompany each colorplate, and 3 important interview with the artist are reprinted in their entirety.

New York. Tony Shafrazi Gallery. FRANCIS BACON: Important Paintings from the Estate. Essays by David Sylvester, Sam Hunter, and Michael Peppiatt, and photographs by John Deakin; 92 pp., illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. 4to, cloth. 1998.
Published on the occassion of the first exhibition of paintings from the Estate of Francis Bacon.

Sladen, Mark. BACON's Eye: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon from the Barry Joule Archive. Includes an interview with Barry Joule; 112 pp., roughly 115 color and 5 b&w illustrations. Large 4to, wraps. London, 21 Publishing in association with Barbican Art, 2001.
This book presents work from a controversial group of 70 oil sketches, and over 800 preparatory drawings and source images attributed to Francis Bacon. During his lifetime Bacon always claimed never to have worked from preparatory studies and these works have not been officially recognized by the Bacon Estate. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Barbican Gallery that means to set the matter before the public.

Davies, Hugh M.. FRANCIS BACON: The Papal Portraits of 1953. 80 pp., illustrated in colour and b&w. Small 4to, cloth. San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001.

New York. Marlborough Gallery. FRANCIS BACON: Paintings. 43 pages, including 10 color plates. 4to, wraps. Marlborough Gallery, 1990.

Madrid. Marlborough Galeria. FRANCIS BACON: Paintings 1981-1991. 47 pp., illustrated in color and b&w. 4to, wraps. 1992.
Text in Spanish and English.

Todoli, Vicente, Martin Harrison and David Sylvester. FRANCIS BACON Caged.Uncaged. 280 pp., over 100 color plates. With 21 color plates - Items from Francis Bacon's Studio - loose. 4to, cloth. Porto, Fundacion Serralves, 2003.
Text in English and Spanish.

de Barañano, Kosme et al. FRANCIS BACON: Lo Sagrado y lo Profano/The Sacred and the Profane. 288 pp., over 100 color and b&w illustrations. Large 4to, cloth. Valencia, IVAM, 2003.
Text in Spanish, Valencian and English.

Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art. FRANCIS BACON: Paintings 1945-1982. 109 pages, including 44 color and 50 b&w plates.Including 4 fold-out full page color triptychs. 4to, wraps. Tokyo,The National Museum of Modern Art, 1983.

Russell, John. FRANCIS BACON. 192 pages, 175 plates, 37 in color. 8vo, wraps. London, New York and Toronto, Oxford University Press. 1979.
World of Art series

Baldassari, Ann. BACON - PICASSO: The Life of Images. 240 pp., 180 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. Paris, Flammarion, 2005.
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Musee Picasso, Paris. Text in English.

Hammer, Martin. BACON and SUTHERLAND. 272 pp., 102 b&w figures, 20 color plates. . 4to, cloth. New Haven and London, Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, , 2005.
A study two Modernist painters, their intriguing correspondence, and the very different ways that their painting engaged the post-war British culture.

Hammer, Martin and Richard Calvocoressi. FRANCIS BACON: Portraits and Heads. 96 pp., roughly 60 color and 10 b&w plates. Oblong 4to, wraps. Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland Publications, in association with London, The British Council, 2005.

Cappock, Margarita. FRANCIS BACON'S Studio. 240 pages, 338 figures, most in color. 4to, cloth. London and New York, Merrell Publishing, 2005.
This book of photographs of Bacon's studio at 7 Reece Mews is the most in-depth study on the subject published to date. The studio contents totalled 7500 objects, and the examination of these drawings, materials, handwritten notes, and books brings new insight into the artist and his work.

Davies, Hugh and Sally Yard. FRANCIS BACON. 128 pp., 111 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, wraps. New York, London, and Paris, Abbeville Press, 1986.

Schmied, Wieland. FRANCIS BACON: Commitment and Conflict. 183 pp., 63 color plates, 133 b&w figures. 4to, wraps. Munich, Berlin, London, New York, Prestel Publishing, 2006.

London, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd.. FRANCIS BACON: Three Triptychs. With introduction by David Sylvester; unpaginated, 3 tipped-in color plates. Oblong 8vo, wraps. 1984.

Peppiatt, Michael. FRANCIS BACON in the 1950s. xi and 200 pp., illustrated in color and b&w. 4to, cloth. Norwich, The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, in association with New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006.
During the decade of the 1950s, Bacon created many of the most central and memorable images of his career. This new book presents and assesses a wide range of paintings representing all of Bacon's major themes during those ten years.
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.

Ades, Dawn and Andrew Forge. FRANCIS BACON. 246 pp. very well illustrated with color plates and b&w figures. Large 4to, wraps. London, Tate Gallery, 1985.

Farr, Dennis, Michael Peppiatt and Sally Yard. FRANCIS BACON: A Retrospective. 240 pp., 114 color and 61 b&w illustrations. 4to, wraps. New York, Harry Abrams with the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 1999.
This substantial catalogue for a travelling exhibition offers an incisive and well-researched examination of Bacon's private life and career, illuminating his working methods and other aspects of his art that he was particularly reclusive about. Individual commentaries accompany each colorplate, and 3 important interview with the artist are reprinted in their entirety.

London. Marlborough Fine Art. FRANCIS BACON(1909-1992): Small Portrait Studies, Loan Exhibition. 4to, wraps. 1993.

Chiappini, Rudy (editor) et al. FRANCIS BACON. 252 pp., roughly 150 illustrations, most in color, including many gatefold plates. 4to, cloth. Milan, Skira, 2008.
Exhibition: Milan, Palazzo Reale
A beautifully presented overview of every phase of Bacon's career, from his first paintings in the 1930s to his late triptychs. It also includes a series of documents-drawings, photographs, and works on paper such as collages and retouched photographs-from the Dublin City Gallery.

Leiris, Michel. FRANCIS BACON. 236 pages, 146 color plates, including numerous gatefolds. 4to, cloth-backed boards. Barcelona, Poligrafa, 2008.
Poligrafa's long unavailable landmark monograph of 1987, which included a selection made by Bacon himself of 146 key paintings, is revised and reprinted here for the first time. An essential text for Bacon fans and scholars.

Sylvester, David. Interviews with FRANCIS BACON: New and Enlarged Edition. 176 page text well illustrated with 129 b&w plates. 4to, wraps. London, Thames and Hudson, 1980.

Harrison, Martin and Rebecca Daniels. FRANCIS BACON: Incunabula. Foreword by Barbara Dawson; 226 pages, illustrated throughout in color. 4to, cloth. New York, Thames & Hudson, 2009.
Exhibition: Tate Britain, London. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
This previously unpublished selection of Francis Bacon's source material - photographs, books, magazine and newspaper clippings - offers an unprecedented insight into Bacon's creative process.

Gale, Matthew, and Chris Stephens (editors). FRANCIS BACON. Essays by Martin Harrison et al.; 288 pp., roughly 250 color and 25 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. New York, Rizzoli and Milan, Skira in association with London, Tate Britain, 2009.
Exhibition in London, Madrid and New York.

Hunter, Sam. FRANCIS BACON. 96 pages, including 87 illustrations in color. 4to, boards. Barcelona, Poligrafia, 2009.

Coliva, Anna, and Michael Perppiatt (editors) . CARAVAGGIO BACON. 224 pages, beautifully illustrated throughout in color. 4to, wraps. Milan, Federico Motta, 2009.
Exhibition at the Galleria Borghese, Rome.Text in English and Italian.

Dawson, Barbara, and Martin Harrison (curators) et al. FRANCIS BACON: A Terrible Beauty. Edited by Logan Sisley; 208 pages, 225 color figues. Large 8vo, wraps. Dublin, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, and Gottingen, Steidl, 2009.
Accompanies an exhibition in Dublin and at Compton Verney.

Harrison, Martin [editor] et al. FRANCIS BACON: New Studies. Centenary Essays. 272 pages, 173 color plates. 4to, cloth. Gottingen, Steidl, 2010.

Harrison, Martin. In Camera: FRANCIS BACON. Photography, Film, and the Practice of Painting. 256 pp., 200 color and 75 b&w illustrations. 4to, wraps. New York, Thames & Hudson, 2006.

Lucie-Smith, Edward. BACON i disegni. 96 pages, 4 color figures and roughly 30 color plates. 4to, boards. Milan, Christian Maretti, 2010.
Exhibition in Milan. text in Italian and English.

Piguet, Philippe and Sébastien Planas. FRANCIS BACON: Estampes. Collection Andre Tacou. 120 pages, fully illustrated in color. 4to, wraps. Paris, Berville Editions, 2008.