Irish Times: ‘I’d go for a pint with Willem de Kooning and dinner with Francis Bacon’
“‘People ask, ‘isn’t it depressing to spend 10 years with this very dark artist?’,’ says Stevens. ‘But the answer is no. He also liked life. He loved drinking, going out, he was a great gambler, he said many funny things.’
’There was a lot of spark,’ says Swan.”
Gemma Tipton, “I’d go for a pint with Willem de Kooning and dinner with Francis Bacon,” Culture section, Irish Times, January 24, 2021.