Brian Sewell: 'Francis Bacon loved to fart'

The world’s best art critic, Brian Sewell, relates how he bonded with the late artist Francis Bacon. They would meet at a Harrods juice bar and Bacon would bring an exotic vegetable for liquidising to be added to a beverage. “Asked why, he told me that he liked to fart and to this end would drink any foul concoction.” Unfortunately Sewell kept no notes of his encounters with Bacon: “I recall only disconnected jottings, as it were, with the occasional interjections of let wind.”