FRANCIS BACON, Issue No 162, November 1966.

DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR. Text by Michelle Leiris, interview with Bacon by David Sylvester. Francis Bacon.

Published by Derrière le Miroir, Paris., 1966

Loose wraps containing loose sections with text and full large page illustrations of Bacon's work. Full page plates are not numbered but there would appear to be 30 pages in all including text and 3 blanks., plus 4 further pages composing the wrap around cover. There are 8 full page colour lithographs three of which are a triptych on single larger sheet, plus the full page front cover illustration. There are also two colour triptych across the centre fold of two sheets. The last four, in another single section, are in black and white, being being 2 full page b&w illustrations and across the centre fold, a triptych and either side of it two further triptych. Also a section on cream paper entitled Chroniques for this issue. The enfolding wrap has four short closed tears across the middle of the spine, no doubt from the stress of the extra contents. Otherwise all very good indeed. Loosely inserted extras are: Galley proofs of Sylvester's interview with Bacon in English that were printed in French in this issue of Derrière Le Miroir. (Sylvester conducted a number of interviews with Bacon and Nigel Gosling, an influential art critic, whose copy this was, wrote about both Bacon and Sylvester's interviews with him). Very good. Also a Sunday Times magazine for July 14th 1963 giving another interview with photographs of further paintings in colour. Very good indeed. Also an early style photocopy of an article on Bacon from the Observer Weekend Review's Observer Profile. (No date visible). Very good. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.". Seller Inventory # NGA.DERR.LE.FRBA.2022

Bibliographic Details

Title: FRANCIS BACON, Issue No 162, November 1966.
Publisher: Derrière le Miroir, Paris.
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition