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Richard Cork on Francis Bacon

10 December 2008
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Join critic and writer Richard Cork for a personal recollection of his experience of Francis Bacon, and learn of his astonishment when he discovered that the man who had created those pictures, with their violent and obsessive emphasis on screaming or struggling figures, was in reality so warm, communicative and hospitable.

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