Francis Bacon
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The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 'Must surely be the definitive
life of Francis Bacon ... A biography that no Bacon fan - or indeed
foe - can afford to overlook ... Mesmerising' THE TIMES 'A
magnificent triumph ...I was captivated by every line' OBSERVER A
decade in the making, based upon hundreds of interviews and
extensive new material, Pulitzer Prize winners Mark Stevens and
Annalyn Swan have written a startlingly original portrait - rich,
complex, and subtle - of a commanding modern figure. Bacon
concealed many important aspects of his life. He described himself
as an asthmatic child in Ireland with foxhunting parents and a
tyrannical father, but he was also rescued by a series of
formidable women - women who in this biography emerge in their own
right.He was never just a dissolute young man but was also a
passionate reader, largely self-taught. Early on, influenced by
Eileen Gray, he became a hard-working and ambitious designer, a
brief career explored here in detail for the first time. He dreamed
of remaking the modern room.Bacon worked no less hard or
ambitiously as a painter, at first with little success. Throughout
the 1930s and early '40s he suffered ongoing failures, growing
isolated and often ill. His health issues throughout his life were
far more significant than he revealed.Then came his astonishing
breakthrough in 1944, with Three Studies for Figures at the Base of
a Crucifixion. In the following decades, he emerged as one of the
great iconoclasts and bon vivants of his time, a Wildean figure
whom one friend called 'a terrific grandee.' Bacon was typically
celebrated as a sexual adventurer who liked rough trade, but he
never stopped longing for a serious committed relationship, however
painful. He continued to make disturbing images of the strangeness
within, but developed into a more varied artist than has been
recognised, creating in particular an extraordinary series of
self-portraits.He was an artist who believed in chance and paradox:
the iconoclast eventually became an icon. This is a story, deeply
researched and masterfully told, of a sickly boy who became one of
the great figures of his time. The twentieth century does not know
itself without Bacon.
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