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FRANCIS BACON MAN AND BEAST

Royal Academy to 17th April

This is another of last year’s scheduled shows that seems at last to be taking its place on the starting line.

One advantage of the delay is that a book intended by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (HarperCollins, £20), not only was published on its due date, but has been declared art book of 2021 by the

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