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Tate donor warns: ‘I’ll take back my £20m Francis Bacon collection’ – The Guardian

Barry Joule, a close friend of the artist, says the gallery has not kept to a pledge to stage exhibitions of the works

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When more than 1,200 sketches, photographs and documents from the studio of Francis Bacon were donated to the Tate in 2004, it was described as one of the most generous gifts the gallery had ever received, estimated to be worth £20m. Now the donor is threatening…

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