Francis Bacon in Your Blood (56 page)

I am particularly grateful to Rebecca Carter, my agent at Janklow & Nesbit, for having advised me so skilfully at every stage of this book. Rebecca combines extensive publishing expertise with outstanding editorial flair, and I have benefitted hugely from both.

My warmest thanks to my editor, Michael Fishwick, who encouraged and guided me throughout. I am also grateful to the whole team at Bloomsbury, notably Alexandra Pringle, Anna Simpson, Laura Brooke, David Mann and Oliver Holden-Rea.

My greatest debt is as ever to my wife, the art historian Jill Lloyd. This book is dedicated to her and to our children, Clio and Alex.

I should like to take this opportunity to thank the following people very sincerely for their help, their encouragement and their friendship: Frank Auerbach, Kate Austin, Ida Barbarigo, Oliver Barker, Peter Beard, Alice Bellony, Philippe Bern, Tony and Glenys Bevan, David and the late Laurence Blow, Anne and Yves Bonavero, Jessie Botterill, Erik Boursier, Adam Brown, Ben and Louisa Brown, Frank and Eva Burbach, Marlene Burston, Charles and Natasha Campbell, Carla Carlisle, Neil and Narisa Chakra Thompson, Alexandre Colliex, Myriam da Costa, Patrice and Mala Cotensin, Monique Couperie, Stéphane Custot, Adrian and Jamie Dicks, Christopher Eykyn,
Rebecca Folland, Sarah-Jane Forder, Elena Foster, Colin and Sophie Gleadell, Kirsty Gordon, Catherine Grenier, Cyrille de Gunzburg, Claude-Bernard Haïm, Nadine Haïm, David Hockney, Waring Hopkins, Richard and Christina Ives, Bill and Janet Jacklin, Peter James, Jeanne Job, Nigel Jones, Sam Keller, Leon Kossoff, Ulf Küster, Andrew Lambirth, Mark and Lucy Lefanu, Magnus Linklater, Bertrand Lorquin, Olivier Lorquin, Nicholas Maclean, Rachel Mannheimer, Juan Marsé, Gillian Malpass, Pierre-Yves Mauguen, Antoine Merlino, Henry and Alison Meyric Hughes, Lucy Mitchell-Innes, Bona Montagu, Serena Morton, Martin and Smita Murphy-Davé, David Nash, Lynn Nesbit, Hughie and Clare O'Donoghue, Francis Outred, Will Paget, Edmund Peel, Ann Peppiatt, David Plante, Renée Price, Robert Priseman, Joan Punyet Miró, Tomaso Radaelli, Simon Rake, Jean-Claude Rivière, Paul Rousseau, Frédéric and Carole de Senarclens, Christopher and Carmel Shirley, Frank and Pauline Slattery, Paul Sloman, Arturo di Stefano, Jon-Ove Steihaug, Ian and Mercedes Stoutzker, Derick Thomas, Thérèse Tigretti Berthoud, Jorge Virgili, Diana Watson, Thomas West, Ortrud Westheider, Thomas Williams, Clive and Catherine Wilson.

Index

Abstract Expressionism, 
here

action directe
, 
here
,
here

Aeschylus, 
here
,
here

Oresteia
, 
here

Aga Khan, 
here

Agnelli, Gianni, 
here

Algerian War, 
here

Alloway, Lawrence, 
here
,
here

Andrews, Michael, 
here

Antonioni, Michelangelo, 
here

Apollo, sculptures of, 
here

Aragon, Louis, 
here

Art and Literature
, 
here

Art International
, 
here
,
here
,
here

re-launched, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

suspended, 
here
,
here

Athenaeum Club, 
here
,
here
,
here

Auden, W. H., 
here
,
here
,
here

Auerbach, Frank, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Bacon, Francis 

acquires Paris studio, 
here

admiration for the French, 
here

advertises as companion, 
here

author's admiration for, 
here

as boulevardier, 
here

capacity for alcohol, 
here
,
here

childhood in Ireland, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

commissioned portraits, 
here

deformity and brutality in his paintings, 
here
,
here
,
here

dream of his death, 
here

dyed hair, 
here

early years, 
here
,
here
,
here

and George's death, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

ideas on painting, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

illness and death, 
here
,
here

interest in literature, 
here

intimate friendships, 
here

late style and imagery, 
here
,
here

and money, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

and number seven, 
here

and old age, 
here

physical resilience, 
here

politics, 
here
,
here

radiance, 
here

relationship with parents, 
here
,
here

and religion, 
here
,
here

schooldays, 
here

self-portraits, 
here
,
here
,
here

sexuality, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

shyness, 
here

his studio, 
here

time in Berlin and Paris, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

and watches, 
here
,
here

Bacon, Francis, WORKS: 

Bullfight
, 
here

Jet of Water
, 
here

Large Interior, W11 (after Watteau)
, 
here

Leiris portraits, 
here
,
here
,
here

May–June 1974
, 
here

Painting 1946
, 
here

popes, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Three Studies of the Male Back
, 
here

Two Figures
, 
here
,
here

Bacon, Harley, 
here

Bacon, Ianthe, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Bacon, Winnie, 
here
,
here

Bailey, David, 
here

Baker, Stanley, 
here

Balthus, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Barcelona, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Barnes, Djuna, 
here

Barral, Carlos, 
here

Barrault, Jean-Louis, 
here

Bart, Lionel, 
here

Baudelaire, Charles, 
here

BBC World Service, 
here

Beard, Peter, 
here

Beaton, Cecil, 
here

Bébert, 
here
,
here

Beckett, Samuel, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Belcher, Muriel, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

see also 
Colony Room

Berlemont, Gaston, 
here

Berlin, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Bernard, Jeffrey, 
here

Bertolucci, Bernardo, 
here

Beston, Valerie, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

and George's death, 
here

Bibendum, 
here
,
here

Bigeard, General, 
here

Birkin, Jane, 
here

Blackwood, Caroline, 
here

Bletchley Park, 
here
,
here

Blow, David, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

family, 
here

flat in London, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Bogdanovich, Peter, 
here

Boileau, Nicolas, 
here

Borges, Jorge Luis, 
here
,
here
,
here

Botticelli, Sandro, 
here

Boulevard Saint-Michel, 
here

Boulez, Pierre, 
here

Bowles, Paul and Jane, 
here
,
here

Brando, Marlon, 
here

Branson, Richard, 
here

Braque, Georges, 
here
,
here

Brassaï, 
here

Breton, André, 
here

le Brocquy, Louis, 
here

Brompton Cemetery, 
here

Burroughs, William, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

café-bougnat
, 
here
,
here

Cahiers d'Art
, 
here
,
here

Caine, Michael, 
here

Calder, Alexander, 
here

Calder, John, 
here

Cambridge Opinion
, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Campbell, Charles, 
here

Camus, Albert, 
here

Caravaggio, 
here

Caro, Anthony, 
here

Carrier, Robert, 
here

Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 
here
,
here
,
here

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 
here

Centre Georges Pompidou, 
here

Cézanne, Paul, 
here
,
here

Champs-Elysées, 
here
,
here

Charles, Ray, 
here

Charles-Roux, Edmonde, 
here

Charlie Chester's, 
here

Château du Marais, 
here
,
here

Checker, Chubby, 
here

Chopping, Dickie, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Chuck (wrestler), 
here

Churchill, Winston, 
here
,
here

Claridge's, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Clayeux, Louis, 
here

Clouet, Jean, 
here

Clouzot, Henri-Georges, 
here

Colony Room, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Connaissance des Arts
, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Connaught, the, 
here
,
here
,
here

Connoisseur
magazine, 
here

Connolly, Cyril, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Conran, Terence, 
here

Cooper, Douglas, 
here
,
here

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille, 
here

Coupole incident, 
here
,
here

Courrèges, André, 
here

Crillon, the, 
here
,
here
,
here

Crivelli, Carlo, 
here

Crockford's, 
here

Crommelynck, Aldo, 
here

Dado, 
here
,
here

Dalí, Salvador, 
here
,
here

Danielle, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

Davenport, John, 
here

de Gaulle, Charles, 
here

De Kooning, Willem, 
here

Deakin, John, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

author's first encounters with, 
here
,
here
,
here
,
here

and Grand Palais exhibition, 
here
,
here

marriage, 
here

portrait of Bacon, 
here

and sculpture, 
here

Dean Close school, 
here

Defferre, Gaston, 
here

Degas, Edgar, 
here
,
here
,
here

catalogue raisonné, 
here

Deleuze, Gilles, 
here

Deneuve, Catherine, 
here

Derain, André, 
here

Devonshire, Duke of, 
here
,
here

Diba, Farah, 
here

Dicks, Adrian, 
here