Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages, color illustrations. This book argues that Bacon created many of the most central memorable images of his career in the 1950s. It deals with Bacon the man and the painter through the significant developments in his art and through his letters to Erica Brausen, Robert Sainsbury and Lisa Sainsbury.