Foundation Focus

Subjects related to Francis Bacon’s work, life and creative process are analysed for the Foundation by art historians, scholars, photographers, artists and friends of Francis Bacon.

Francis Bacon Exhibition Moscow 1988

James Birch

In March 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev became First Secretary of the Soviet Union. Things were beginning to change. In December 1985 I was running a gallery in the Kings road showing young artists, including Grayson Perry and the Neo-naturists. I wanted to show my stable of young artists in New York. At a party a friend of mine suggested I take them to Moscow instead.