List of paintings by Francis Bacon

This is an incomplete list of paintings by the Irish-born British painter Francis Bacon (1909–1992).

1930s

 * c.1929–30
 * Painting (Oil on canvas, 91.5 cm × 61 cm, Private Collection (long term loan to the Tate Gallery))
 * 1933
 * Crucifixion (Oil on canvas, 60.5 cm × 47 cm, Private collection of Damien Hirst (Murderme), London)
 * c.1936
 * Figures in a Garden (aka Seated Figure, The Fox and the Grapes, and Goering and his Lion Cub) (Oil on canvas, 74 cm × 94 cm, Tate Gallery, London)

1940s

 * 1944
 * Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (Oil and pastel on Sundeala board, 94 cm × 74 cm (37 in × 29 in), Tate, London) (large triptych)
 * 1945
 * Figure in a landscape (Oil on canvas, 144.8 cm × 128.3 cm, Tate, London)
 * 1945–46
 * Figure Study I (Oil on canvas, 123 cm × 105.5 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh)
 * Figure Study II (Oil on canvas, 145 cm x 129 cm, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield)
 * 1946
 * Painting (Oil and pastel on linen, 197.8 cm × 132.1 cm (6.5 7/8 x 52 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
 * 1947–48
 * Head I (Oil and tempera on hardboard, 100.3 cm × 74.9 cm (39.5 x 29.5 in), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
 * 1949
 * Head II (Oil on canvas, 80 x 63.6 cm (31.4 x 25 in), Ulster Museum, Belfast)
 * Head III (Oil on canvas, 81 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in), Private collection)
 * Head IV (Man with a Monkey) (Oil on canvas, 82 x 66 cm, (32.4 x 26 in) Private collection)
 * Head V (Oil on canvas) Private collection)
 * Head VI (Oil on canvas, 93.2 cm × 76.5 cm (36.6 x 30.1in), Arts Council Collection, London)
 * Study from the human body (Oil on canvas, 147.2 × 130.6 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)

1950s

 * 1951
 * Pope I – Study after Pope Innocent X by Velazquez (Oil and sand on canvas, 197.8 x 137.4 cm (78 x 54 in), Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen)
 * 1952
 * Man Eating a Leg of Chicken (Oil on canvas), Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia)
 * Man Kneeling in Grass (Oil on canvas, 198 x 137 cm (78 x 54 in), Private collection, Milan)
 * Study for Crouching Nude (Oil and sand on canvas, 137.1 x 198.1 cm (54 × 78 in), Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan)
 * Study of a Dog (Oil on canvas, 198.1 cm × 137.2 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
 * Study of a Figure in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, 198.12 x 137.16 cm (78 x 54 in), Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.)
 * Study for a Portrait (aka Businessman I and Man's Head) (Oil on canvas, 66.1 cm × 56.1 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
 * 1953


 * Two Figures (Oil on canvas, 152.5 cm × 116.5 cm (60.0 in × 45.9 in), Private Collection.


 * Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (Oil on canvas, 152.1 × 117.8 cm (59 7/8 × 46 3/8 in), Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines)
 * Study of a Baboon (Oil on canvas, 198.3 x 137.3 cm (6.6 x 54 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
 * Study from the Human Body (Oil on canvas, 147.2 x 130.6 cm (57.8 x 51.4in), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
 * Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, 152.3 x 117 cm (60 x 46 in), Private collection)
 * Study for Portrait VI (Oil on canvas, 151.45 x 116.21 cm (59 5/8 x 45 3/4 in), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota)
 * Study for Portrait VII (Oil on canvas, 152.3 x 117 cm (60 x 46 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
 * Study of the Sphinx (Oil on canvas, 214 x 153 cm (84.2 x 60.2 in), Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut)
 * 1954
 * Man in Blue IV (Oil on canvas, 137 × 197.96 cm (53.94 x 77.95 in), mumok, Vienna)
 * Figure with Meat
 * 1955
 * Head in Grey (Oil on canvas, 60.9 x 51 cm (24.1 × 20.1 in), Walker Art Center, Minnesota)
 * Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, 60.1 cm × 50.8 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
 * Figure Sitting (The Cardinal) (Oil on canvas, 178.5 cm × 143.5 cm (70.2 x 56.4in), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent)
 * 1956
 * Figures in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, 150 x 107.5 cm (59 x 42.3 in), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham)
 * Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 198.12 × 137.16 cm (78 x 54 in), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas)
 * Study for Figure No. 4 (Oil on canvas, 152.4 cm × 116.8 cm (60 x 45.9in), Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide)
 * Study for Portrait, Number IV (After the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, each 61.1 x 50.8 cm (24 1/8 x 20 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City) (small triptych)
 * 1956–57
 * Study for Portrait No.6 (Oil on canvas, 149 x 116 cm (58.6 x 45.6 in), Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne)
 * 1957
 * Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh IV (Oil on canvas, 152.4 cm × 116.8 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
 * Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh VI (Oil on canvas, 198.1 cm × 142.2 cm (78 x 56in), Arts Council Collection, London)
 * Study for Chimpanzee (Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 117 cm (60 x 46 1/16 in), Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice)
 * 1958
 * Pope with Owls (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 1422 cm (78 x 56in), Museum of Modern Arts, Brussels)

1960s

 * 1959–60
 * Walking Figure (Oil on canvas, 158.12 × 142.24 cm (78 x 56 in), Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas)
 * 1960
 * Nude (Oil on canvas 152,4 x 119,7 cm, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt)
 * Seated Figure (Oil on canvas, 152.8 x 119.5 cm, (60 1/8 x 47 in), Private collection)
 * Study of a Child (Oil on canvas 152.5 x 118 cm (60 x 46.5 in), Botero Museum, Bogotá)
 * 1961
 * Reclining Woman (Oil on canvas, 198.8 cm × 141.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
 * Seated Figure (Oil on canvas, 165.1 cm × 142.2 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
 * 1962
 * Figure in a Room (Oil on canvas, 198.8 × 144.7 cm (78.2 × 56.9 in), Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul)
 * Study for Three Heads (Oil on canvas, 35.9 x 30.8 cm (14 x 12 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
 * Three Studies for a Crucifixion (Oil and sand on canvas, 198.2 x 145 cm (78 x 57 in), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City) (large triptych)
 * 1963
 * Figure with Two Owls, Study for Velazquez (Oil on canvas, 198.12 x 144.78 cm (78 x 57 in), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco)
 * Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 142.2 cm (65 x 56 in), Sheldon Solow )
 * Study for Portrait on Folding Bed (Oil on canvas, 198.1 cm × 147.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
 * Study for Self Portrait (Oil on canvas, 165.2 x 142.6 cm (64.9 x 56.1 in), National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff)
 * Three Studies for the Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (Oil on canvas, each 35.9 x 30.8 cm (14 1/8 x 12 1/8 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City) (small triptych)
 * 1964
 * Study for the Portrait of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.8 cm (78 x 54 in), Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
 * Three Figures in a Room 1964 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris) (large triptych)
 * Study for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 152.4 x 140 cm, (60 x 55 in), Private collection)
 * 1965
 * Crucifixion (Oil and acrylic on canvas, 197.5 cm x 147 cm (78 x 58 in), Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich) (large triptych)
 * 1966
 * Three Studies for a Portrait of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)
 * Portrait of George Dyer Talking (Oil on canvas, 198.2 x 147.3 cm (78 x 58 in), Private collection)
 * Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne (Oil on canvas, 81.3 cm × 68.6 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
 * c.1967
 * Untitled (Head) (Oil on canvas, 33.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in), Private collection)
 * 1967
 * Study for Head of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 36 cm × 30.5 cm, Private collection, long term loan to Tate Gallery, London)
 * Triptych inspired by T.S Elliot's Poem Sweeney Agonistes (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78.25 x 57.25 in), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.) (large triptych)
 * Three Studies for George Dyer (1967)
 * Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud (1967)
 * 1968
 * Two Figures Lying on a Bed with Attendants (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran) (large triptych)
 * 1969
 * Three Studies of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)

1970s

 * 1970
 * Triptych 1970 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), National Gallery of Australia, Canberra) (large triptych)
 * Three Studies of the Male Back (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57.5 in), Kunsthaus, Zurich)
 * Triptych – Studies of the Human Body (1970) (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 58.5 in), Private collection of Jacques Hachuel, Paris) (large triptych)
 * Triptych – Studies from the Human Body (1970) (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Jacques Hachuel, Paris) (large triptych)
 * 1971
 * Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd version 1971 (198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 58⅛ in)
 * In Memory of George Dyer (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Beyler Foundation, Riehen, near Basel) (large triptych)
 * 1972
 * Triptych–August 1972 (Oil on canvas, 198.1 x 147.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
 * Three Studies of Figures on Beds (Oil and tempere on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)
 * 1973
 * Three Portraits: Posthumous Portrait of George Dyer, Self-portrait, and Portrait of Lucian Freud (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Beyler Foundation, Riehen, near Basel) (large triptych)
 * Triptych, May–June 1973 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Esther Grether, Switzerland) (large triptych)
 * 1974
 * Three Studies for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 35.6 x 30.5 cm, (14 x 12 in), Private collection) (small triptych)
 * Triptych March 1974 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection, Madrid) (large triptych)
 * Triptych 1974–1977 (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Joe Lewis) (large triptych)
 * 1975
 * Three Studies for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, each 35.5 x 30.5 cm, (14 x 12 in), Private collection) (small triptych)
 * Three Figures and Portrait (Oil on canvas, 198.1 cm × 147.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London)
 * 1976
 * Study for Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 198.0 x 147.5 cm (77.9 x 58 in), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)
 * Triptych 1976 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Roman Abramovich) (large triptych)
 * 1979
 * Triptych – Studies of the Human Body (1979) (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)
 * 1979–80
 * Three Studies for a Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, each 37.5 cm × 31.8 cm (14 3/4 x 12.5 in), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) (small triptych)

1980s

 * 1981
 * Triptych inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 58 in), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo) (large triptych)
 * 1981–82
 * Triptych November 1981 – January 1982 (left panel) (Oil, pastel and transfer lettering on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm, Private collection, the Estate of Francis Bacon)
 * 1982
 * Three Studies for Portrait (Mick Jagger) (Oil and pastel on canvas, each panel 35.5 x 30.5 cm (14 x 12 in), Private collection, New York City) (small triptych)
 * 1983
 * Three Studies for a Self Portrait (Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 30.5 cm (13 3/4 x 12 in), Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu)
 * Triptych 1983 (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of Juan Abelló) (large triptych)
 * 1984
 * Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)
 * 1986
 * Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Marlborough International Fine Art) (large triptych)
 * Portrait of Gilbert de Botton Speaking (Oil on canvas, Private collection)
 * 1987
 * Triptych 86–87 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection) (large triptych)
 * Triptych 1987 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Private collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon, London) (large triptych)
 * c.1988
 * Blood on Pavement (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection)
 * 1988
 * Portrait of John Edwards (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection of the Estate of Francis Bacon, London)
 * Jet of Water (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Private collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomlinson Hill, New York)
 * Second Version of Triptych 1944 (Oil on canvas, 198 x 147.5 cm (78 x 57 in), Tate, London) (large triptych)

1990s

 * 1991
 * Study for a Portrait March 1991 (Oil on canvas, 198 cm × 147.5 cm, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh)
 * Triptych 1991 (Oil on linen, 198.1 x 147.6 cm (78 x 57 in), Museum of Modern Art, New York City) (large triptych)