J. Russell, Francis Bacon , London, 1971, p. 182, no. 89 (illustrated).
L. Trucchi, Francis Bacon , Milan, 1975, (illustrated in color, pl. 136).
M. Leiris, Francis Bacon, Full Face and in Profile , London, 1983, no. 68 (illustrated in color).
Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture , exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1983, p. 242 (illustrated, pl. 1).
J. Burr, "Round the Galleries: Crisis Under the Skin," Apollo , June 1985, vol. CXXI, p. 431, no. 1 (illustrated).
M. Vaizey, "Bacon: Genius Who Walks Alone," The Sunday Times , 26 May 1985, p. 43 (illustrated).
H. Davies and S. Yard, Francis Bacon , New York, 1986, p. 6, no. 1 (illustrated in color and illustrated on the front cover).
D. Kuspit, "Hysterical Painting," Artforum , vol. 24, no. 5, January 1986, p. 55 (illustrated in color).
J. Burr, "Too Much Reality?," Apollo , vol. CXXXI, no. 335, January 1990, p. 59, no. 1 (illustrated).
P. Ackroyd, "Pictures from an Irish Exhibitionist," The Times , 2 September 1993, p. 39 (illustrated).
A. Riding, "The School of London, Mordantly Messy as Ever," The New York Times , 25 September 1995, p. C11 (illustrated).
W. Schmied, Francis Bacon Commitment and Conflict , Munich and New York, 1996, p. 100, no. 31 (illustrated in color).
F. Bores and M. Kundera, Francis Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits , London, 1996, p. 106 (illustrated in color).
Francis Bacon , exh. cat., Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 1996 (illustrated, pl. 70).
C. Darwent, "Valerie Forever," The Independent , 29 January 2006, p. 5 (illustrated).
H. Lane, "Valerie at the Gallery," Observer Magazine , 29 January 2006, p. 32 (illustrated).
J. Colapinto, "The Alchemist," The New Yorker , 20 March 2006, p. 96 and 100.
M. Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait: Essays and Interviews , New Haven and London, 2008, pp. 216-217 (illustrated in color).
R. Cork, "Bacon and Edge," The Sunday Times Magazine , 7 September 2008, p. 1 (illustrated).
A. Wieland, Francis Bacon , New York, 2009, pp. 15 and 53 (illustrated in color).
J. Littell, Triptych: Three Studies after Francis Bacon , London, 2013, pp. 190-191 (illustrated in color).
M. Harrison and R. Daniels, eds., Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné: Volume III 1958-71 , London, 2016, pp. 22, 920-921 and 1000, no. 69-13 (illustrated in color).
M. Harrison, ed., Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psycholog y, London, 2019, p. 120, no. 82 (illustrated in color).