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, , Private Collection (long term loan to the Tate Gallery)) 1933 Crucifixion (Oil on canvas, , 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, , Tate Gallery, London)
1940s 1944 Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (Oil and pastel on Sundeala board, , Tate, London) (large triptych) 1945 Figure in a landscape (Oil on canvas, , Tate, London) 1945–46 Figure Study I (Oil on canvas, , Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh) Figure Study II (Oil on canvas, , Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield) 1946 Painting (Oil and pastel on linen, , Museum of Modern Art, New York City) 1947–48 Head I (Oil and tempera on hardboard, , Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) 1949 Head II (Oil on canvas, , Ulster Museum, Belfast) Head III (Oil on canvas, , Private collection) Head IV (Man with a Monkey) (Oil on canvas, , Private collection) Head V (Oil on canvas) Private collection) Head VI (Oil on canvas, , Arts Council Collection, London) Study from the human body (Oil on canvas, , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
1950s 1950 Man at Curtain (Oil and cotton wool on canvas, , The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, permanent loan to Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen) Fragment of a Crucifixion (Oil and cotton wool on canvas, , Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven) Study for a Figure (Oil and cotton wool on canvas, , Private Collection) Study after Velázquez (Oil on canvas, , The Steven and Alexander Cohen Collection) 'Study after Velázquez' (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Painting (Oil on canvas, , Leeds Museum and Galleries, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds)
1951 Figure with Monkey (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Head (Oil on canvas, , Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland) Study for Nude (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Portrait of Lucian Freud (Oil and sand on canvas, , Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester University, Manchester) Pope I (Oil on canvas, , Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Collection, Aberdeen) Pope II (Oil and sand on canvas, , Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim) Pope III (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) 'Crouching Nude' (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) 'Figure' (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection)
1952 Study for Crouching Nude (Oil on canvas, , Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit) House in Barbados (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Dog (Oil and sand on canvas, , Tate Gallery, London) Landscape (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Study of a Head (Oil on canvas, , Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven) Study for a Head (Oil and sand on canvas, , Jane Davis Lang) Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection, Belgium) Study for Head (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Landscape (Oil on canvas, , The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh) Study of Figure in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, , The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.) Man Kneeling in Grass (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection, Milan) Elephant Fording a River (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Rhinoceros (Oil on canvas, , Destroyed by the artist) Dog (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Dog (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Landscape, South of France (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Man Eating a Leg of Chicken (Oil and sand on canvas, , Private Collection) Man in a Chair (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) 'Man on a Rowing Machine' (Oil on canvas, , Ca' la Ghironda Modern Art Museum, Zola Predosa) 'Marching Figures' (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) 'Figure with Raised Arm' (Oil on canvas, , Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin) 'Crouching Nude' (Oil and cotton wool on canvas, , Private Collection) 'Figures in a Landscape' (Oil and alkyd paint on canvas, , Private Collection)
1953 Study of a Nude (1952–53) (Oil on canvas, , Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich) Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (Oil on canvas, , Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines) Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, , Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg) 'Man on a Chaise-Longue' (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection, Italy) 'Sea' (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Man with Dog (Oil on canvas, , Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo) Study for Portrait I (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Study for a Portrait II (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Study for Portrait III (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Study for Portrait IV (Oil on canvas, , The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Centre, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie) Study for Portrait V (Oil on canvas, , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) Study for Portrait VI (Oil on canvas, , Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis) Study for Portrait VII (Oil on canvas, , Museum of Modern Art, New York) Study for Portrait VIII (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Sphinx I (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Sphinx II (Oil on canvas, , Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven) Study of a Baboon (Oil on canvas, , Museum of Modern Art, New York) Study for Figure I (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Study for Figure II (Oil on canvas, , Janine and J. Tomilson Hill) Study of Figure in a Room (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection, London) 'Lying Figure' (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection, Rome) Study of the Human Head (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Three Studies of the Human Head (Oil on canvas, triptych; each panel , Private Collection) Two Figures (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Two Figures at a Window (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection, London) Portrait of a Man (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Sphinx (Oil on canvas, , Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota) The End of the Line (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, , The V-A-C Collection, Moscow) Monkey (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) 'Portrait of a Man Walking' (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) 'Pope' (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection)
1954 Man in Blue I (Oil on canvas, , Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam) Man in Blue II (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Man in Blue III (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Man in Blue IV (Oil on canvas, , Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna) Man in Blue V (Oil on canvas, , Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf) Man in Blue VI (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Man in Blue VII (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Sphinx (Oil on canvas, , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.) Study of a Dog (Oil on canvas, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) Figure with Meat (Oil on canvas, , Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago) Pope (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Two Americans (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Study for a Portrait (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Figures in a Landscape (Oil on cardboard, , Private Collection) A Performing Dog (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) 'Seated Figure' (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Untitled (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection)
1955 Study for Portrait I (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Study for Portrait II (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, , Tate Britain, London) Study for Portrait III (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Head in Grey (Oil on canvas, , Walker Art Center, Minneapolis) Small Study for Portrait (Oil on canvas, , The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection / Winners of the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen, permanent loan in the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen) Study for a Head (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Man Drinking (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Chimpanzee (Oil on canvas, , Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart) Portrait of R.J. Sainsbury (Oil on canvas, , Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich) Study for Portrait IV (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, , c. 1955, Museum of Modern Art, New York) Study for a Pope (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Man with Head Wound (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection, Germany) Figure Sitting (Oil on canvas, , S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent) Head with Raised Arm (Oil on canvas, , Whereabouts Unknown) Study (Oil on canvas, , Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich) Sketch for a Portrait of Lisa (Oil on canvas, , Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich) 'Lisa Sainsbury' (?) (Oil on canvas, , c. 1955, Private Collection)
1956 Self-Portrait (Oil on canvas, 198.12 x 137.16 cm, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth) Head (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm, 1956, Private Collection) Study for Portrait of Van Gogh I (Oil and sand on canvas, 152.5 x 117 cm, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich) Portrait of Lisa (Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 73.5 cm, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich) Study for Portrait II (Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 116.5 cm, Janine and J. Tomilson Hill) Study for Portrait I (Oil on canvas, 197 x 141.5 cm, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa) Man Carrying a Child (Oil on canvas, 198 x 142 cm, 1956, Private Collection) Study for Portrait V (after the Life Mask of William Blake) (Oil on canvas, 36 x 30.5 cm, 1956, Private Collection) Owls (Oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm, Private Collection) Figure in Mountain Landscape (Oil on canvas, 152.5 x 118 cm, Kunsthaus Zürich, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde, Zürich) Figures in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, 147.3 x 132.1 cm, Private Collection) 1956–57 Figures in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, , 1956–1957, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham) Study for Figure IV (Oil on canvas, , 1956–1957, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide) Study for Figure V (Oil on canvas, , 1956–1957, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley) Study for Figure VI (Oil on canvas, , 1956–1957, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle) Study for Portrait IX (Oil on canvas, , 1956–1957, Private collection)
1957 Study for Portrait X (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Skull of a Gorilla (Oil on canvas, , Fractionally owned by a private collection, USA, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco) Study for the Nurse in the film Battleship Potemkin (Oil on canvas, , Städel Museum, Frankfurt) Study for Chimpanzee (Oil on canvas, , Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice) Study for Portrait of Van Gogh II (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection)- Titled On the Road to Tarascon on reverse Study for Portrait of Van Gogh III (Oil and sand on canvas, , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) Study for Portrait of Van Gogh V (Oil and sand on canvas, , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.) Study for Portrait of Van Gogh VI (Oil on canvas, , The Arts Council of Great Britain) Van Gogh in a Landscape (Oil on canvas, , Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris) Figure in a Landscape (Miss Diana Watson) (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Portrait of Lisa (Oil on canvas, , Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich) Van Gogh Going to Work (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection): Titled and signed on the reverse Study for Portrait of P.L. No. 1 (Oil on canvas, , Private Collection) Study for Portrait of P.L. No. 2 (Oil on canvas, , Robert and Lisa Sainsbury) Mlle Suzy Solidor (Oil on canvas, , Whereabouts Unknown, destroyed by the artist) Study for Portrait (Oil on canvas, , The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection / Winners of the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen, permanent loan in the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen)