FRANCIS BACON IN YOUR BLOOD

In June of 1963, when Michael Peppiatt first met Francis Bacon, the former was a college boy at Cambridge, the latter already a famo us painter, more than thirty years his senior. And yet, Peppiatt was welcomed into the volatile artist's world/ Bacon, considered by many to be mad, bad, and dangerous to know, proved himself a devoted friend and father figure, even amidst the drinking and gamblin g. Though Peppiatt would later write perhaps the definitive biography of Bacon, his sharply drawn memoir has a different vigor, reve aling th...[Leer más]