The perfect introduction to the life and work of Francis Bacon

Martin Hammer is a leading specialist on Bacon, having taught, lectured, researched and written about his work for many years. He is the author of two important scholarly books on the artist, Bacon and Sutherland (2005) and Francis Bacon and Nazi Propaganda (2012). He also curated major exhibitions devoted to Graham Sutherland at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in 2005 and 'The Naked Portrait' at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh in 2007. He is Professor of History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent.