Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)

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Francis Bacon : anatomy of an enigma / Michael Peppiatt.

Francis Bacon : ou, La vérité criante / Michel Leiris.

Making monsters : hybrids in the work of Francis Bacon and Eleanor Crook / Kelley K Swain.

Francis Bacon / [text by] Lorenza Trucchi ; translated [from the Italian] by John Shepley.

Bacon and the mind : art, neuroscience and psychology / Christopher Bucklow, Steven Jaron, Darian Leader, John Onians, Semir Zeki and Tomohiro Ishizu.

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Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon / [text by] Lorenza Trucchi ; translated [from the Italian] by John Shepley.

Bacon and the mind : art, neuroscience and psychology / Christopher Bucklow, Steven Jaron, Darian Leader, John Onians, Semir Zeki and Tomohiro Ishizu.