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Article: The artist, his muse and his muse's lover (not to mention an u11 million legacy, a famous lesbian dominatrix and a mysterious shooting); With the death of Francis Bacon's close friend who had inherited his fortune, we can tell an amazing story that begins with an East End burglary...
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 7, 2003
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Byline: JONATHAN COOPER
WITH a suicide, some petty criminals, a brilliant artist, his homosexual lover and a mysterious shooting, the only element missing seems to be murder. It is the story of the legacy of Francis Bacon and it all begins with a death.
Not the 1992 death of Bacon, the brilliant artist in question - the Soho bohemian, irascible charmer and ill-tempered drunk, a sadomasochistic homosexual who could move from gentleman to boor in the downing of glass.
And not even the death of his long-time friend and sole beneficiary of his u11 million will, John Edwards, who died of lung-cancer in a Thai hospital this week and opened a whole ...