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Arthouse

Season 1 · Episode 12

The Other Francis Bacon

0.0August 2, 1998

Art-world orthodoxy holds that Bacon did not prepare or rehearse his paintings. But Bacon's friend and neighbour Barry Joule has revealed an enormous cache of sketches and treated photographs he claims Bacon left to him.

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Episode 1The Van Gogh Fakes
Episode 2Big War in Lilliput
Episode 3In Search of the Amber Room
Episode 4A Very British Psycho
Episode 5Rebel With a Cause
Episode 6Naked and Famous
Episode 7Ivanov Goes to Moscow
Episode 8Songs from the Golden City
Episode 9Making a Killing
Episode 10Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin
Episode 11The Fine Art of Crime
Episode 12The Other Francis Bacon
Episode 13The Lost Frescoes
Episode 14Tuning With the Enemy
Episode 15Daydream Believers
Episode 16A Roll of the Dice: The Story of The Capeman
Episode 17The Lost Supper
Episode 18Loving Lenin
Episode 19The Cowboy and the Eclipse