Sophie Pretorius is the archivist of The Estate of Francis Bacon collection.
Her publications on Francis Bacon include 'A Pathological Painter: Francis Bacon and the control of suffering', (Francis Bacon Studies III, 2020), 'The Crime of the Century: Peter Beard and Francis Bacon using images of Africa as evidence of the new scale of death', (catalogue essay, Wild Life: Francis Bacon and Peter Beard, Ordovas, 2021), and 'Work on the Barry Joule Archive', (Francis Bacon Studies IV, 2021).