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Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing. Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis they began a friendship and a no-holds-barred conversation that would continue until Bacon's death 30 years later. Fascinated by the artist's brilliance and charisma, Peppiatt accompanied him on his nightly round of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to louche club and casino, seeing all aspects of Bacon's 'gilded gutter life' and meeting everybody around him.

Nació en Dublín, de padres ingleses, pintor británico de origen irlandés, cuyo personalísimo estilo expresionista, basado en un simbolismo de terror y rabia, lo ha convertido en uno de los artistas más originales del siglo XX. Llegó a Londres en 1920. Entre 1927-1928 pasó algún tiempo...