Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Francis Bacon NPG x26413

© estate of Daniel Farson / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Daniel Farson

The photographer Daniel Farson described Bacon as 'the most magical man I have ever known'. Farson and Bacon had been good friends and drinking companions since the early 1950s. Farson, a broadcaster, journalist and photographer took many photographs of Bacon throughout their friendship. This photograph was taken outside the French Pub on Dean Street, now called the French House, where he had first met Bacon, and where Bacon would always buy champagne. The artist was particularly fond of the Edwardian toast: 'Champagne for my real... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.