Bacon's Studio: A Deeply Ordered Chaos

Is Francis Bacon's atelier chaotic? In a sense, yes. It is also consistent with a grotesquely suggestive idea expressed by the artist himself (in numerous interviews which took place in the second half of the twentieth century). Indeed, Bacon's studio happens to be compatible with his cherished image of "a deeply ordered chaos."
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1. "The 1930 Look in British Decoration," Studio, Vol. 100, August 1930, pp. 140-41
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2. Cecil Beaton, Francis Bacon in his Studio, photograph, 1959
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3. Jorge Lewinski, Francis Bacon in his Studio, photograph, 1963
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4. John Deakin, Peter Lacy in Bacon's Studio, photograph, c. 1964
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5. Francis Bacon’s Studio, photograph, c. 1975. Mac Robertson Collection, London
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6. Francis Bacon in his Reece Mews Studio, 1977
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8. Jesse Fernandez, Francis Bacon in his Studio, photograph, 1978
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10. Bruce Bernard, Francis Bacon in his Studio, photograph, 1984
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11. Perry Odgen, 7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio, photograph, 2001
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13. John Edwards, Francis Bacon in his Studio, photograph, 1984
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14. Perry Odgen, 7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon's Studio, photograph, May 1992
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15. Odgen, 7 Reece Mews, 1992
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18. Francis Bacon once said: “Images [...] help me find and realize ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people’s plates.”
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19. Odgen, 7 Reece Mews, 1992
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20. Ibid.
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21. Ibid.
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22. Ibid.
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23. Linda McCartney, Francis Bacon's Studio, London, photograph detail, 1997
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24. Edwards, Bacon in his Studio, 1984

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