Article: So where are Bacon's 'missing millions'? The brother of artist Francis Bacon's gay muse talks for the first time about their relationship and the mystery of the [pounds sterling]10m legacy.

Byline: EMINE SANER

I MEET David Edwards outside a Tube station in west London.

He's waiting for his son to finish work and says I can wait with him. The only reason he's agreed to see me, he says, is because he wants to put a few things straight about his brother, John, the man who, it was suggested yesterday, had frittered away [pounds sterling]10 million of the fortune left to him by Francis Bacon, widely regarded as the greatest British painter of the 20th century. "John was a really good bloke," says David, but then he would say that, wouldn't he?

John died of lung cancer aged 53 in a Bangkok hospital in March 2003.

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