FRANCIS BACON 1909 - 1992
Photos of Francis Bacon taken in London in 1978 by Jesse Fernandez. © Estate Jesse A. Fernandez. MB Art Collection

My work is a
reflection of my life.

Francis Bacon

Click on the titles below to explore some of the significant periods in Bacon’s life.

Childhood in Ireland and England
1909 - 1925
London, Berlin and Paris
1926 - 1932
Soho
From the 1920s
Furniture and rug design
1929 -1933
Crucifixion
1933
Breakthrough
1944
Monaco
1940 - 1990
The Hanover Gallery
1948 - 1958
Marlborough Fine Art
1958 - 1992
Reece Mews
1961
The first Tate Gallery retrospective in London
1962
The Grand Palais retrospective in Paris
1971
Parisian period
1974 - 1987
The second Tate Gallery retrospective in London
1985
Madrid
Late 1940s - 1992
His last unfinished painting
1992