![]() Bacon's life has long been a kind of myth, structured around signposts-he was whipped as an adolescent by the grooms of his horse-trainer father he never drew he showed no emotion when his lover, George Dyer, died in a hotel in Paris in 1971. It is all the more potent for belonging to a phase of Bacon's life-the young man before he was an artist-that he later tried to erase from the record. ![]() He became Bacon's first serious lover and mentor.Īllden's diary is one of many new discoveries contained in Revelations, the first major biography of Bacon since Michael Peppiatt's Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an enigma in 1996. "His name was Francis Bacon and he had big childish pale blue eyes." Allden, whose name is virtually absent from previous accounts of the artist's life, was a diplomat and a member of the Tory establishment. "He told me he was starting a shop in London for ultra-modern furniture and was going to Paris to purchase samples", Allden wrote in his diary. ![]() ![]() įrancis Bacon was crossing the Channel from England to France in 1929 when he met a man called Eric Allden. ![]()
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