| Description | Includes:
-review of an exhibition held at The Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia, in 1996
Also includes:
-letter from Camilla Broadbent, relative of the artist Roy de Maistre, dated 13 February 1996, concerning Sewell's article, and the relationship between Bacon and Roy de Maistre
-letter from R. Mason, undated, concerning Ruskin Spear, John Minton, the Royal College of Art, and the 'invention' of Francis Bacon as a painter in the late 1940s
-memo from Max Hastings, Evening Standard, dated 1 February 1996, congratulating Sewell on his article
-copies of three letters exchanged between Barry Joule and David Sylvester, art historian, dated 6 May 1996, concerning the latter's article for The Guardian, and a copy of the article
-letter to Angus [?], dated 21 July 2014, concerning Sewell's dating of the early Bacon self-portrait
-six pages of Sewell's handwritten notes
-research material
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