Bibliograph

Francis Bacon in your blood, a memoir, Michael Peppiatt

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Francis Bacon in your blood, a memoir, Michael Peppiatt

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Francis Bacon in your blood

Oclc number

899332393

Responsibility statement

Michael Peppiatt

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing. Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis they began a friendship and a no-holds-barred conversation that would continue until Bacon's death thirty years later. Fascinated by the artist's brilliance and charisma, Peppiatt accompanied him on his nightly round of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to louche club and casino, seeing all aspects of Bacon's 'gilded gutter life' and meeting everybody around him, from Lucian Freud and Sonia Orwell to East End thugs; from predatory homosexuals to Andy Warhol and the Duke of Devonshire

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