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The Estate of Francis Bacon
The estate of Francis Bacon passed upon his death to his sole heir, John Edwards, companion and friend of the artist for the last sixteen years of his life. Edwards donated the Reece Mews Studio to the Dublin City Gallery, Hugh Lane in 1998.

Following Edwards own death in 2003 a substantial part of his estate was left to the benefit of philanthropic works in the name of Francis Bacon. Today the estates of Francis Bacon and John Edwards are responsible for the funding of the Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Francis Bacon, a research grant for the artists biography and the support of a variety of pertinent exhibitions, publications, films and scholarly research into the painter and his times. 
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Dublin City Gallery - The Hugh Lane
In 1998, John Edwards, Bacon's sole heir, generously donated the entire contents of Francis Bacon's studio at 7 Reece Mews to the Hugh Lane Gallery. This remarkable donation is the most important received by the Gallery since it was established by Sir Hugh Lane in 1908.

Francis Bacon lived and worked in 7 Reece Mews, South Kensington, London from 1961 until his death in 1992. The studio / residence was one of a short row of converted coach houses on a quiet cobble-stoned lane. The house was small and utilitarian in layout. The ground floor was almost entirely occupied by a large garage where Bacon kept surplus items from the studio. An extremely steep wooden staircase, with a rope for a handrail, led to a landing. On the left was Bacon's spartan bed-living room. Ahead was an eccentric kitchen-cum-bathroom. To the right was the studio, the most important room in the artist's life. Bacon said himself of his cluttered studio, "I feel at home here in this chaos because chaos suggests images to me." Bacon rarely painted from life and the heaps of torn photographs, fragments of illustrations, books, catalogues, magazines and newspapers provided nearly all of his visual sources. Some of the most significant studio items include seventy works on paper and one hundred slashed canvases. The vast array of artist's materials, household paint pots, used and unused paint tubes, paint brushes, cut-off ends of corduroy trousers and cashmere sweaters record the diversity of Bacon's techniques. It is from here that Bacon's stature grew into that of the pre-eminent figurative painter of the late 20th century. While Bacon occasionally looked for a new, grander place to work, he continually returned to this awkward but familiar room.
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Tate Collection - Francis Bacon
The Tate has almost 60,000 works in its collection, including British works from 1500 to the present day and twentieth century works by both British and International artists. This selection has been assembled by Tate curators to give you a flavour of the collection as well as showing off some of the key works.
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Francis Bacon
Image gallery, biography, techniques, public collections, photos.
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Art Cyclopedia
The guide to great art on the internet. Francis Bacon: Commercial galleries, paintings in museums and public art, pictures from image archives, websites, articles, multimedia, books at Amazon.
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Francis Bacon Publications
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