Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait

Michael Peppiatt is a well-known author and internationally respected authority on 20th-century art. He has written numerous publications on Bacon, including the biography Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, 2009.

Introduction * Interviewing Francis Bacon: Interview One: From a Conversation with Francis Bacon; Francis Bacon At Work; Bacon and Picasso On La Danse (Crucifixion), 1933; An Obsession with Popes; Francis Bacon in the 1950s * Interview Two: Reality Conveyed by a Lie; The Sacred and the Profane; Mr Bacon and Miss Beston; 'All the Pulsations of a Person': Portraits and Self-Portraits On Four Studies for a Self-Portrait, 1967; Francis Bacon and Shakespeare * Interview Three: Provoking Accidents, Prompting Chance; Francis Bacon in Paris; On Study of George Dyer, 1971; On Seated Figure, 1974; A Strange Fascination: Michel Leiris and Francis Bacon; On Two Figures, 1975; Reflections on Francis Bacon's Late Work * Envoi: Bacon's Eyes