West Cork photographer reflects on friendship with late painter Francis Bacon

West Cork-based photographer John Minihan was in Monaco recently to see an exhibition of paintings by his late, great friend

AN EXHIBITION of Francis Bacon’s paintings anywhere in the world is always a major artistic event. In Paris he has approached the status which was once accorded to Picasso. Hardly a month passes without reading about the artist whose paintings sell for record millions.

He’s also appreciated further south. I was invited recently to view the summer exhibition at Monte Carlo’s Grimaldi Forum, entitled Francis Bacon, Monaco and French Culture.