The received wisdom about artist Francis Bacon’s life goes: He painted like a maniac in his chaotic studio every day, drank like a maniac in London’s seedy Soho neighborhood every night. There’s an ...
This was the first portrait from the life that Bacon attempted; that’s to say, the first to enter the oeuvre. It was done at the Royal College of Art where, for a year or so, Rodrigo Moynihan gave ...
Francis Bacon In Your Blood: A Memoir by Michael Peppiatt ★★★★★ This is the umpteenth time that Michael Peppiatt has written about the man he somewhat breathlessly describes as ‘one of the most ...
Arabella Pike of HarperPress has beaten off competition from six other publishers in an auction for the rights to a new biography of artist Francis Bacon. Pike finalised the deal for UK and ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The ball was given by a Lady Rothermere, but it was Princess Margaret everyone would remember, in ...
From his early failures to the untimely death of two of his lovers, the life of the Dublin-born artist is laid bare in this absorbing read Chaos and obsession: Artist Francis Bacon in front of the ...
WHEN, some years ago, I set out to write about Sir Francis Bacon, the undertaking loomed frighteningly large. Not only had Bacon been written about copiously for more than three hundred years, but I ...
In 2013, Francis Bacon’s painting Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for $142 million, setting the world record (since surpassed) for the most expensive painting sold at auction. His second-and ...
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