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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Why Francis Bacon's estate is sizzling with outrage
The Estate of Francis Bacon is appalled after being alerted that pieces at an upcoming exhibition are from the Ravarino Collection, which is the subject of cases related to fraud and faking.
‘I might live in squalor, but I don’t see why I should drink filth,’ said the artist, who fuelled himself on fine wines, eschewed sleep and yet – working in his cramped studio, whose rubbish-heaped floor looked like a breeding ground for rats – produced canvases of unique intensity. Featuring what are described as ‘raw and unsettling works, ranging from small pencil sketches on novel pages to large mixed-media collages’, it promises to ‘revisit the themes and motifs that define Bacon’s more famous paintings, including popes, crucifixions, screaming figures, and distorted faces’. Kirstie Allsopp's cousin Jamie, who’s revived his family brewery, today opens his new pub, the Blue Stoops, where the trendy Kensington Wine Rooms bar once stood in west London.
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