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The Visitors' Book - In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller (Paperback)
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The Visitors' Book - In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller (Paperback)
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Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of
the mid-twentieth century art world, with the visitors' book of the
Essex townhouse they shared from 1945 until 2008 painting them as
Zeligs of British society. The names recorded inside make up an
astonishing supporting cast - from Francis Bacon to Lucian Freud to
Randolph Churchill to John Minton. Successful artists, although not
household names themselves, writing Dicky and Denis off as just
footnotes in history would be a mistake. After Denis's death in
2010, Jon Lys-Turner, one of two executors of the couple's estate,
came into possession of an extraordinary archive of letters, works
of art and symbolically loaded ephemera the two had collected since
they met in the 1930s. It is no exaggeration to state that this
archive represents a missing link in British art history - the
wealth of new biographical information disclosed about Francis
Bacon, for example, is truly staggering. The Visitors' Book is both
an extraordinary insight into the minutiae of Dicky and Denis's
life together and what it meant to be gay in pre-Wolfenden Britain,
as well as a pocket social history of the era and a unique
perspective into mid-twentieth century art. With reams of
previously unseen material, this is a fascinating and unique
opportunity to delve into post-war Britain.
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