Monday 9 May 2011

Marble-lined Suffolk mansion built with the legacy of Francis Bacon, for sale at £3.5m | Mail Online

Marble-lined Suffolk mansion built with the legacy of Francis Bacon, for sale at £3.5m | Mail Online

Most country houses priced at £3.5 million can be expected to have the odd nice painting on the wall. But this one is covered with the works of one of the world’s greatest artists – Francis Bacon.
The tortured, upper-class Anglo-Irish painter had a penchant for drinking and gambling in Soho’s demimondaine clubs, mingling with a markedly eclectic set of friends.
But none was more charismatic than the Edwards family, from the East End, who migrated to the Constable countryside of East Anglia where Bacon joined them on many of their lively weekends at the picturesque village of Long Melford.

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