Francis Bacon: Life as obsession » UkPubsLondon.com

In Paris he also receives, at a surprising rate, one of its most obvious sources of inspiration: a book about skin diseases provides aesthetic stimuli: “I like the brightness and colors of the mouth and I've always wanted to paint the mouth of the Just as Monet painted sunsets. ... Dyer's death through ingestion of barbiturates in a hotel room in Paris, came two days before the opening of the major retrospective that the Grand Palais in Paris devoted to Bacon. ...