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Francis Bacon Describes His Painting Process

In this 1985 documentary on the artist, made while he was still very much alive, Francis Bacon talks through one of his most iconic works and explains how he makes paintings. The documentary features ...

The art of Mark Francis: A strange, uncanny sense of time and movement evokes Francis Bacon

Tracing Echoes shows the expansion of the artist’s palette from the monochromatic paintings the of early 2000s ...
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The Beastliness of Bacon

LONDON — Full in your face, you might say. Before you enter the exhibition proper, you see a photograph of Francis Bacon as a relatively young man, confronting you through the glass in the double ...
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Francis Bacon : catalogue raisonné

Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné contains over 900 illustrations across five, cloth-bound hardcover volumes. The three 400-page volumes that make up the study of Bacon's entire oeuvre are bookended ...
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Francis Bacon : the logic of sensation / Gilles Deleuze ; translated and with an introduction by Daniel W. Smith ; afterword by Tom Conley

Francis Bacon: The logic of sensation -- The round area, the ring -- Note on figuration in past painting -- Athleticism -- Body, meat, and spirit: Becoming-animal -- Recapitulative note: Bacon's ...