Publisher's Synopsis
The art historian Michael Peppiatt has carried out extensive research on the relationship between Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti. 'I began to feel I could actually hear them talking', he revealed. For Peppiatt, the dialogue between Bacon and Giacometti has been 'turning slowly' in his mind ever since Bacon told him in detail about his encounters with the Swiss artist, while the latter was in London in 1965 to supervise the preparations for his major exhibition at the Tate. This book, written in the form of a play, is about an imagined encounter between the two men. On the evening imagined by Peppiatt, Bacon and Giacometti enjoy a lavish dinner at Wheeler's fish restaurant, then go on to the Colony Room - Bacon's favourite club in Soho - to pursue their freely flowing conversation about life, art, and their mutual friends.
