Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure. The Great Read Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of ...
The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits is ... There is, of course, in the distortion of his faces and bodies, a chronic vulnerability ...
In a section on Francis Bacon and George Dyer ... especially in the glassy-eyed stare and ugly distortion of Dyer’s nose in the central panel… it was only the beginning of Bacon’s attempts ...