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,
“... in the de Maistre studio-salon, I met other more or less important people, among them Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, as well as Douglas Cooper … I got to know Francis when he designed some furniture for my Eccleston Street flat. I like to remember his beautiful pansy-shaped face, sometimes with too much lipstick on it … In those days ... ”
