Bacon's studio reassembled in Dublin

The chaotic London studio of arguably the greatest British-based artist or Irish artist of the 20th century has been painstakingly reconstructed in a Dublin art gallery - even down to the dust.

Dublin-born Francis Bacon, who lived and worked in a studio in the South Kensington area of London for the last 30 years of his life, said he loved living in chaos as it suggested images to him.