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The Raw Vision of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon at 100.

By Christopher BenfeyPosted Wednesday, May 27, 2009, at 7:03 AM ET

Click here to read a slide-show essay about Francis Bacon.Click here to read a slide-show essay about Francis Bacon.

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Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
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