Francis Bacon

Explore the exhibition room by room using the Room Guide or take your own route using the interactive tour to explore some of the themes running through Bacon's work.

More information about the interactive tour

View all the works in the exhibition and explore thematic relationships between Bacon’s paintings and other printed images he commissioned or collected from books, newspapers and magazines. Audio and video clips let Bacon himself explain more about the images, what they meant to him or how he used them as inspirational sources.

The interactive tour requires Adobe Flash Player 9 and is optimised for a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or higher. The initial download is 3.47 MB with audio and video continuing to download in the background once the site has opened.