Keeper of Francis Bacon’s Secrets? Or a Fantasist and a Trickster?
The last time Barry Joule saw his friend Francis Bacon, it was 10 days before the celebrated painter’s death. No one in the art world disputes that. For over a decade before that spring day in 1992, Joule, a Canadian handyman with a rock-star mane, had been one of Bacon’s helpers, doing odd jobs around […]