Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon: Full Face and in Profile , New York 1983, no. 98, p. 186, illustrated in colour
Eddy Batache, “Francis Bacon and the last convulsions of Humanism,” Art and Australia , vol. 23, no. 2, Summer 1985, pp. 223-24, illustrated in colour
John Russell, Francis Bacon , London 1979, no. 101, p. 175, illustrated
Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon , Paris 1987, no. 99, p. 86, illustrated in colour
Ernst van Alphen, Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self , London 1992, no. 104, p. 167, illustrated
Andrew Sinclair, Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times , London 1993, p. 238 (text)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée Picasso, Bacon-Picasso: The Life of Images , 2005, p. 42 (text)
Martin Harrison, “Francis Bacon: Lost and Found,” Apollo , March 2005, no. 7 (earlier state) and no. 8, pp. 94-95, illustrated in colour
David Sylvester, The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon , London 1987, no. 99, p. 131, illustrated (1993 and 2012 reprint); no. 98, p. 151, illustrated in colour (2016 reprint)
Exh. Cat., Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Francis Bacon / Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone , 2013-14, p. 142 (text)
Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Francis Bacon: Late Paintings , 2015, p. 150 (text) (reprinted from Eddy Batache, “Francis Bacon and the last convulsions of Humanism,” Art and Australia , 1985)
Martin Harrison, ed., Francis Bacon Catalogue Raisonné, Volume IV, 1971-92 , London 2016, no. 75-09, pp. 1082 (earlier state) and 1085, illustrated in colour
Majid Boustany, ed., Francis Bacon: Study for a Portrait , Monaco 2019, p. 153, illustrated (installed in Francis Bacon: œuvres récentes , Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1977)
Michael Peppiatt, ed., Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words , London 2024, p. 329 (text) (Francis Bacon quoted in his letter to Eddy Batache, 16 July 1982)
Majid Boustany, ed., Francis Bacon: Interwoven Lives , Monaco 2025, pp. 198, 200 (earlier state) and 201, illustrated in colour; p. 199, illustrated (installed in Francis Bacon: œuvres récentes , Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1977)
