The Exhibition That Made, And Almost Wrecked, Francis Bacon's Career
His 1970 solo show at the Grand Palais in Paris meant to establish Bacon in the very highest echelons of living painters " even, he hoped, as a peer to Picasso. Then his erstwhile lover, the subject of many of the works on display, killed himself in their hotel room just before the show's opening. […]
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