Francis Bacon
Subtitle: anatomy of an enigma
By: Michael Peppiatt.
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781602397620
Subjects: Bacon, Francis, -- 1909-1992; Painters -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Originally published: London : Constable, 2008.
Table of contents: title: The weakling of the family, 1909-26; title: Educated abroad : Berlin and Paris, 1926-28; title: A brief apprenticeship, 1928-33; title: Insufficiently surreal, 1933-39; title: A vision without veils, 1939-44; title: Father figures and crucifixions, 1944-46; title: Towards other shores, 1946-50; title: Hounded by furies, 1950-54; title: Truth told by a lie, 1954-58; title: Recognition at home : the Tate retrospective; title: A brilliant fool like me, 1963-69; title: All the honours of Paris, 1969-72; title: Elegy for the dead, 1972-75; title: My exhilarated despair, 1975-80; title: Alone in the studio, 1980-84; title: The greatest living painter, 1984-92.