Francis Bacon // Prints and Multiples

  • Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1984
    Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1984
    Lithograph, Edition size 150
    ©Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon’s prints offer a new way to experience the force of his imagery, defined by psychological weight and a refusal to comfort. These editions revisit his most recognisable subjects, from self-portraits to studies of George Dyer, translating their intensity into another medium without softening their impact. Each retains the unease and control that shaped his paintings, echoing the turbulence that ran through his life.

     

    Bacon’s work has always divided audiences. Its raw, unsettling power reflects his confrontation with loss and isolation. The deaths of Peter Lacy and George Dyer cast a lasting shadow, shaping the dark introspection of his later years. Technically refined yet emotionally charged, these prints stand as fragments of a practice that turned private grief into enduring images of survival.

     
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  • Prints and Multiples Catalogue

    Explore a curated selection of Francis Bacon prints and multiples.

  • “You can’t be more horrific than life itself.”

     

    – Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon’s prints and multiples offer a way to engage with the intensity of his vision beyond the rarefied world of his original paintings. Created in collaboration with master printmakers, these editioned works translate Bacon’s most iconic imagery, from the Screaming Popes to his portraits and self-portraits, into forms that preserve their immediacy and emotional power. Each piece captures the tension and movement that defined his art, allowing collectors and audiences to experience Bacon’s work with the same striking clarity that shaped his painted originals.

  • “I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of human presence.”

     

    – Francis Bacon

    Many of Bacon’s prints revisit the key motifs that defined his career, his portraits, heads, and self-portraits, each reinterpreted through the layered, tactile qualities of printmaking. They demonstrate how Bacon’s imagery could shift between media without losing its intensity, and how repetition remained central to his exploration of the human condition. Today, these editions stand as both collectable artworks and vital extensions of his legacy.

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