INTERVIEWS WITH FRANCIS BACON by David Sylvester Hughlane gallery and the collections once housed

and the collections once housed there by Lord Charlemont

Roddy Doyle

experiences and artistic concerns shared between talented individuals who each developed their own singular approach to painting

evocative and psychologically penetrating study of a powerful artist and the times she lived through

which can be (re)discovered through his words

INTERVIEWS WITH FRANCIS BACON by David Sylvester Hughlane gallery and the collections once housedThe extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted over a period of 25 years by the distinguished art critic David Sylvester amount to a unique statement by Bacon on his art and on art in general. In the book, a classic of its kind, Bacon considers the problems of realism and sheds new light on aspects of his life. With a rare and brilliant use of language, Bacon talks about his aims as a painter and ways in which he works,