Born in 1909, Francis Bacon’s entire early adulthood was penetrated by the tragedy of the Second World War. Unlike many of his contemporaries in...
Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves....
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life: seventeen extraordinary essays on art that trace the
