Unknown Artist
Francis Bacon and William Burroughs, 1989
Photograph
31 x 26 cm
The two men first met in Tangiers in the 1950s when Burroughs was technically on the run for murdering his wife after a 'shooting accident' during a drunken game of...
The two men first met in Tangiers in the 1950s when Burroughs was technically on the run for murdering his wife after a 'shooting accident' during a drunken game of William Tell," writes Dangerous Minds' Paul Gallagher. Bacon was then in a brutal and near fatal relationship with a violent sadist called Peter Lacey who used to beat him with a leather studded belt. None other than Allen Ginsberg made the introduction between the two men, "as he thought Bacon painted the way Burroughs wrote.
Exhibitions
Tales of the Colony Room Club, Dellasposa Gallery, 2020Join our mailing list
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