Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonne: 5 volumes presented in a slipcase

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Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonne is a landmark publishing event that presents the entire oeuvre of Bacon's paintings for the first time and includes over 100 previously unpublished works. The impeccably produced five-volume, slipcased publication, containing each of Bacon's 584 paintings, has been edited by Martin Harrison, FSA, the pre-eminent expert on Bacon's work, alongside research assistant Dr Rebecca Daniels. An ambitious and painstaking project that has been ten years in the making, this seminal visual document eclipses in scope any previous publication on the artist and will have a profound effect on the perception of his work. Containing around 800 illustrations across 1,538 pages within five cloth-bound hardcover volumes, the three volumes that make up the study of Bacon's entire painting oeuvre are bookended by two further volumes: the former including an introduction and a chronology, and the latter a catalogue of Bacon's sketches, an index, and a bibliography compiled by Krzysztof Cieszkowski.Printed on 170 gsm GardaMatt Ultra stock in Bergamo, Italy at Castelli Bolis, the volumes are boxed within a cloth-bound slipcase, and supplied within a bespoke protective shipping carton. In addition to the 584 paintings, the catalogue will contain illuminating supporting material. This includes sketches by Bacon, photographs of early states of paintings, images of Bacon's furniture, hand-written notes by the artist, photographs of Bacon, his family and circle, and fascinating x-ray and microscope photography of his paintings.

Martin Harrison co-curated the Bacon exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen, Dusseldorf in 2006, and 'Francis Bacon / Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone' at The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2013. He is the author of In Camera: Francis Bacon - Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting and, with Rebecca Daniels, Francis Bacon: Incunabula, both published by Thames & Hudson.

for the first time, Bacon's entire output can be seen and assessed.--Mark Brown "The Guardian "