ON THE LINE Conversations with Sean Scully irish drinks Hugh Davies’s unexpurgated 1973 Bacon

Hugh Davies’s unexpurgated 1973 Bacon Diaries are published here in their entirety for the first time

and execution in 1916

which can be (re)discovered through his words

Hers is a life founded on darkness

Although most renowned for his nude females

ON THE LINE Conversations with Sean Scully irish drinks Hugh Davies’s unexpurgated 1973 BaconSean Scullys paintings of brushy stripes and blocks of sumptuous colour are critically acclaimed and widely admired. Less well known is what a gifted storyteller and profound commentator on the history of art he is. In this fascinating book, the record of countless hours of conversations with Scullys friend, the art critic Kelly Grovier, the painter reflects on his extraordinary journey from homelessness on the streets of Dublin in the mid 1940s to