Francis Bacon's StudioFrom Margarita CappockMerrell Publishers Limited, 2005, 240 pages, hardbound, $59.95Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was created in Ireland to British parents and now is known among the most critical post-war painters, his most upsetting oil portraits obtained by important museum collections worldwide. Bacon is remembered chiefly for his exemplary, gruesome portrait of Pope Innocent X. London/New York writer Merrell has generated a definitive, retrospective coffee-table quantity o...