Francis Bacon Estate
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Barry Joule disputes gallery’s claim that trove of sketches and documents, which he donated, was "unsuitable for retention"
Plus, US photographer of queer women, Alice Austen; and Michel Majerus at Art Basel
A thousand documents and sketches from the Barry Joule collection to be deaccessioned by London museum over attribution doubts
A new biography by Carol Jacobi explores the artist’s role in bringing the Paris scene to London and considers how frequent name changes and reinventions muddied her legacy
A Courtauld conference will investigate works on paper said to be by the artist. Owner’s side to offer legal immunity
The drawings will also be in their own catalogue, separate to the rest of the exhibition
Solicitors for John Edwards’ estate deny that his lover has inherited the art
No evidence of blackmail, and video shows the artist satisfied with his gallery
Potentially key witnesses, David Sylvester, Gilbert de Botton and Gilbert Lloyd, are all dead
Litigation may reveal the operations of one of London’s leading galleries and its Liechtenstein subsidiary
A second exhibition of Barry Joule’s collection, left to him by Francis Bacon his former neighbour, is still a matter of dispute with the Bacon Estate
Artist allegedly exploited and heir denied his inheritance
The drawings will be displayed as “attributed to F. Bacon”
The Joule archive drawings continue to cause contention
The new sole executor of Bacon's estate talks in his first public interview about the teams of lawyers now working to see that the artist’s beneficiary, John Edwards, receives precisely what Francis intended him to receive. And that is everything
The heir to the British painter’s works changes galleries from Marlborough to Tony Shafrazi