ARGONAUT BOOKS

Michael Peppiatt, a major art critic and close friend of Francis Bacon's, offers an entertaining and uniquely well-informed portrait of this complex artist. Reviews 'Peppiatt writes perceptively about Bacon's endlessly contradictory nature, his generosity and cruelty, his violence and tenderness, his dandyism and love of squalor, his spectacular dissipation and iron self-discipline, and what he called his "exhilarated despair"' - Daily Telegraph'Contains interviews with and recollections of the artist from the 1960s almost until his death... include[s] the fu...Read More