"Francis Bacon's final painting will be displayed in public for the first time in the UK at a blockbuster exhibition at the Royal Academy.
Study Of A Bull was painted in 1991, the year before he died aged 82. It was not discovered until 2016, in a private London collection, and will conclude the show of 45 Bacon paintings that opens in January. Art critics say it is a rumination on his own death."
Article by Matt Watts, originally published in the Evening Standard (3.9.20)