The national archives of the Centre Pompidou in Paris is to receive a large collection of works donated by a close friend of the British painter Francis Bacon. Barry Joule said he had chosen to the French museum as a recipient instead of the Tate gallery in London after he had had a falling out with the London gallery.
Joule’s donation to France includes up to 150 drawings, 10 paintings, hundreds of photographs and more than 12 hours of taped conversations he had with the artist.
