I toodled right along to Smee’s The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art, where I instantly hit a wall in the first section, in which Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon careen joylessly through a series of airless mid-twentieth-century love affairs
Hmm. I had considered reading this next (I finished Paris in Ruins! it was great!) but I might give it a pass at the moment...
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Date: 2025-05-14 05:19 pm (UTC)Hmm. I had considered reading this next (I finished Paris in Ruins! it was great!) but I might give it a pass at the moment...