Writer Peppiatt revisits Francis Bacon

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Jun. 19, 2009
British writer Michael Peppiatt first published his widely appreciated biography of painter Francis Bacon in 1997. Since then, he has kept abreast of everything he could find, published and unpublished, concerning his notorious subject, who died at 82 in...
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