Imprint: Vintage
Published: 20/01/1994
ISBN: 9780099307815
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 223g
RRP: £12.99
Widely regarded as the best British painter since Turner, very little is known about Francis Bacon's life. In this, the first-ever book to be written about him, Daniel Farson, friend and confidant to Bacon for over forty years, gives a highly personal, first-hand account of the man as he knew him. From his sexual adventures to his rise from obscurity to international fame, Farson gives us unique insight into Bacon's genius.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 20/01/1994
ISBN: 9780099307815
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 223g
RRP: £12.99
The most fascinatingly provocative, intimate study of an artist I have ever read
It preserves precisely the aspects of Bacon that will be hardest for scholarly researchers to capture... no-one can convey better than Farson the fun of Bacon's company and the louche adventures of the Soho underworld
Positively Runyonesque...well-written, entertaining, and above all, thought-provoking
Startlingly revealing