Bacon in Moscow

Bacon in Moscow by James Birch, published by Cheerio in 2022.

This funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount the ground-breaking retrospective of Francis Bacon's work at the newly refurbished Central House of Artists, Moscow in 1988. Side-lined by the British establishment, Birch found himself at the heart of a honey-trap and the focus for a picaresque cast of Soviet officials, attachés and politicians under the forbidding eye of the KGB as he attempted to bring an unseen western cultural icon to Russia during the time of 'Glasnost', just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

A lovely addition to your coffee table or bookshelf, and a thoughtful gift for anyone who loves history.

• Author: James Birch
• Publisher: Cheerio
• Year: 2022
• Pages: 204
• ISBN: 9781788169745