Art historian John Richardson called Francis Bacon “the
first modern painter of international caliber that the British have produced.” In
their new book, Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan write about the fearless painter
whose influences were Nietzsche and Aeschylus, and whose mode was “exhilarated
despair”.
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Critic Parul Sehgal wrote in her review, “It is the most
comprehensive and detailed account of the life, and one that topples central
pillars of the Bacon myth.”