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ANNE YEATS: Out of the ShadowsTwo of her aunts trained with William Morris so she grew up steeped in literature and above all in aesthetics and philosophy of the Arts & Crafts movement. Anne was influenced by Braque, Modigliani, Matisse, Pollock, Klee et al; her own modernist work has been much overlooked. This publication is an attempt to redress this and to show her range and something of her lifes work.

Dorothy Cross

very little is known about Francis Bacon's life

sentimental aunts and poets

They’ll be drawn to the irresistible Gustav Kisstoe

The essays bring Bacon into dialogue with figures such as Aristotle

and Manet’s career in 1870

and prostitutes to reveal an artist of great humanity

as far north as Shetland and as far south as the Isles of Scilly

With over 125 colour plates

Opening with an interview by the author in 1963

he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church

Going to places of old that I have revisited many times