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What did the Russians make of Francis Bacon?

29 January 2022

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29 January 2022

9:00 AM

Bacon in Moscow James Birch

Cheerio, pp.208, 17.99

The KGB might not have known much about modern art, but they knew what they liked. For instance, at what came to be called the ‘Bulldozer show’ of 15 September 1974, the Soviet secret service instructed a small militia of off-duty policemen to besiege an unofficial exhibition being staged by a group of underground artists in a field on the outskirts of Moscow.

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