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,
“... to be done to explain that his paintings were not just garish expressions of his own neuroses. David Sylvester and Michel Leiris, who both wrote perceptively about his work, emerged as friends and champions. As early as 1951, Sylvester asserted that Bacon was ‘the major English artist of his time’. He soon had access to Bacon’s studio and saw ... ”
