by Andrew Sinclair · Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9781856193108
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«Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times» is the biography of the painter Francis Bacon written by Andrew Sinclair, published by Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd in hardcover (365 pages, in English).
The work traces the life of the painter Francis Bacon, from his childhood in Ireland and his youth in Berlin, Paris and London during the Depression to his old age. Sinclair examines how the artist's experiences, marked by two world wars and the conflicts in Ireland, influenced the visions he captured on his canvases, and how the artist's history and personality guided his work.
Published in 1993 as a first edition, the full title is «Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times».
Recommended for readers interested in biographies of artists and in the history of twentieth-century art.
Andrew Annandale Sinclair FRSL FRSA was a British novelist, historian, biographer, critic, filmmaker, and a publisher of classic and modern film scripts. He has been described as a "writer of extraordinary fluency and copiousness, whether in fiction or in American social history".
