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.