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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting although there are some written references on inside back page. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> I first met Francis Bacon in the summer of 1963 when I interviewed him for a special issue on Modern Art in Britain for a student magazine I was editing called Cambridge Opinion. Several other artists who particularly interested me such as Frank Auerbach Lucian Freud and R. B. Kitaj also featured prominently in the issue; none of us was aware of it then but this turned out to be the first time that the views of a group of artists later called the School of London were brought together. Francis was by far the best known having just had his first retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery. I had heard that the easiest way to meet him was simply to wait in the French pub in Soho until he came in. I did just that standing there for a long time before I found the courage to ask a small man sitting serenely on a bar stool whether he knew Bacon.