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Queer Saint : the cultured life of Peter Watson, who shook Twentieth-century art and shocked high society

Queer Saint : the cultured life of Peter Watson, who shook Twentieth-century art and shocked high society

Book 2015

When Peter Watson was murdered in his bath by a jealous boyfriend in 1956, the art world lost one of its wealthiest, most influential patrons. This compellingly attractive man, adored by Cecil Beaton; a man who was called a legend by contemporaries, who was the subject of two scandalous novels, and who helped launch the careers of Francis Bacon, John Craxton and Lucian Freud, fell victim to a fortune-hungry lover. Elegant and hungrily sexual, Pet...