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Biographies are tricky things ‑ and of course it’s extreme cheek on my part since everyone before me has heaped praise on this gargantuan work on the life and art of Francis Bacon by husband and wife duo Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan ‑ but oh how my hands itched to get out the editor’s red pencil and slash away at the sometimes mountainous accumulations of chaff into which Francis Bacon, the greatest of the great twentieth Century artists, almost disappears.

Carps out of the way, Revelations is stuffed with gems. How could it not be? As art aficionado Robert Hughes once wrote: “This painter of buggery, sadism, dread, and death-vomit has emerged as the toughest, the most implacable, lyric artist in late-20th-century England, perhaps in all the world.”

Though the English claim him as exclusively their own, Francis Bacon was born in Ireland. In Baggot Street. His English parents were part of the Anglo-Irish set and he spent the first sixteen years of his life, apart from two years at an English boarding school, in the “Big Houses” of the Pale, Farmleigh, Straffan Lodge, names now familiar to us all.

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