这份目录是为配合二十年来在巴黎首次举办的弗朗西斯•培根作品回顾展而出版的，它根据其与文学的关系分析了培根从1971年开始的作品。

这本豪华的出版物收录了培根**的三联画当中的十二幅，包含11张折叠插页和培根在1971年至1992年去世之间创作的约60幅画作。本书对这些画作进行了翻印，并根据他最崇拜的几位作家对他的画作进行了分析。这些专门请人写的文章展示了理解现代作品中最有感染力的一些作品的新方式。

Published to accompany the first Francis Bacon retrospective in Paris for twenty years, this catalogue analyses Bacon s works from 1971 onwards in light of his relationship to literature. Bacon always vigorously opposed over-

analysis of his paintings, preferring to interpret them in purely illustrative or symbolic terms; he admitted, however, that literature was a powerful stimulus to his imagination. The artist was inspired by the images conjured up by certain texts: Aeschylus phrase the reek of human blood smiles out at me in particular haunted Bacon, while his 1978 work Painting refers to T. S. Eliot s seminal poem The Waste Land. The inventory of Bacon s personal library has identified more than 1,300 books, ranging from Bataille and Conrad to Nietzsche and Leiris.

Including twelve of Bacon s renowned triptychs, this lavish publication features eleven gatefolds and some sixty paintings created by Bacon between 1971 and his death in 1992. Reproduced here with analyses of Bacon s paintings in the light of some of his most admired authors, these specially commissioned texts reveal new ways of understanding some of the most powerful works in the modern canon.