Michael Peppiatt: Francis Bacon in Your Blood [2015] hardback ZHIST visionary optimism' Guardian

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Michael Peppiatt: Francis Bacon in Your Blood [2015] hardback ZHIST visionary optimism' GuardianIt is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing. Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis they began a friendship and a no holds barred conversation that would continue until Bacon's death thirty years