Open in a Scream
Colm Tóibín, 4 March 2021
Francis Bacon: Revelations
by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.
William Collins, 869 pp., £30, January,978 0 00 729841 9 Show More
by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.
William Collins, 869 pp., £30, January,
“... of the best sources for Bacon’s thinking in these years is the diary of his cousin Diana Watson, who saw him regularly in London. ‘At tea,’ she wrote, Bacon ‘said he could not get away from the Crucifixion idea – that he never really wanted to do anything else’. She referred to it as his ‘frightful Crucifixion complex’. His only ... ”
