Under the direction of Barbara Dawson in August 1998, The Hugh Lane team removed Bacon's studio and its entire contents from London to Dublin. Dawson joins us to talk about this undertaking, which involved moving 7000 objects, and of its implication to subsequent exhibitions of Bacon's work.

Macushla Robinson, Francis Bacon and the female nude Against the tide of art history, Bacon predominantly painted men. It may seem strange, then, to consider his paintings of women, but Bacon painted some erotically charged nude women and these paintings raise a fascinating question about how...

Discussion panel with Anthony Bond, Barbara Dawson and Andrew Durham, moderated by Mark Ledbury