The Exhibition That Made, And Almost Wrecked, Francis Bacon´s Career
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His 1970 solo show at the Grand Palais in Paris meant to establish Bacon in the very highest echelons of living painters - even, he hoped, as a peer to Picasso. Then his erstwhile lover, the subject of many of the works on display, killed himself in their hotel room just before the show’s opening. […]