Francis Bacon in Your Blood

In "a frank and stylish memoir," an art historian recalls his thirty year friendship with Bacon against the background of the European art world (The New Yorker).

Michael Peppiatt first met Francis Bacon in June 1963, in the French House in Soho. Peppiatt was immediately swept into the controversial painter's world and, over oysters and champagne, they embarked on a friendship that would endure for thirty years. From Bacon's electrifying early exhibitions through the chaos of drink, drugs, a...