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Thursday, September 12, 2019

Of pain and poetry: how Francis Bacon drew inspiration from Greek drama and TS Eliot

“Assume I’ve read everything,” Francis Bacon would warn interviewers. It was a lead, but no one quite penetrated the extent to which literature infused the work of this defiantly non-narrative artist.


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