Francis Bacon’s former handyman was going to give a trove of his art to Tate. After a feud, he offered it to France instead:
Joule will instead give the additional trove—which includes more than 100 drawings, 10 paintings, and 12 hours of taped conversations between the two men—to the French National Archives at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Joule donated some 1,200 sketches, photographs, and documents from Bacon’s London studio to Tate in 2004. At the time, the museum announced that Joule had “kept a small number of items, which he will bequeath to Tate at a later date.” Tate, for its part, claims it adhered to the deal, which required it to catalogue and display the works. Since 2004, the materials have been available for public access in its archive, and items were exhibited in a display at Tate Britain in 2019, though they were notably left out of the gallery’s major Bacon exhibition in 2008.
Joule lived near Bacon’s studio, and the two were friends from 1978 until the artist’s death in 1992. He now lives in France.
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