Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self.

Art in America | December 1, 1994| | Copyright

"One's basic nature is totally without hope, and yet one's nervous system is made out of optimistic stuff," Francis Bacon told David Sylvester in the early '70s.[1] Bacon died of asthma in spring 1992 at the age of 82, after a life so prodigal that only a high degree of optimism - and no doubt some sturdy genes - could account for his longevity. The artist also worked assiduously, starting at six or seven o'clock most mornings, he asserted, in spite of the hangovers that were the aftermath of his late-night carousals with the luminaries and drifters of his milieu. "What is ...

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