Francis Bacon 1909 - 1992.

 I went on Monday to see the new Francis Bacon, exhibition at the NPG. If you know his work this won’t disappoint and if you’re not familiar, then get ready to be blown away. There is a vast collection of portraits of old friends and colleagues. A few are of Bacon as a young man and one in particular is extraordinary of him as if like Rembrandt - with a beret in old age. A lovely one of his old friend Lucian Freud - makes a ghostly appearance. I didn’t know they became estranged in later life and never spoke again. The erudite, mischievous and ebullient - chief art critic of The Sunday Times, Waldemar Januszezak says ‘Bacon as I never expected’. So get along to the NPG - before the 19 January and be enthralled and educated.