Francis Bacon

This affordable and generous selection from the work of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) offers text by a wide range of critics, and provides an invaluable introduction to Britain's greatest post-war painter. The continued fascination in Bacon's work is examined in detail here, as is a biographical chronology of the artist's life and career. Largely self-taught, Bacon nevertheless had a voracious visual appetite for the history of painting, and his place within that history is made evident by this amply illustrated volume.