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One is lulled into thinking that these contorted bathers are mere exercises in the handling of pastel, and not the work of, in the poet Paul Valéry's words, "a supremely cruel authority on female contours and poses."
"What modern man wants," said the French symbolist poet Paul Valéry, "is the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance."
Bacon cited Valéry to mean precisely that modern art, including realist art like his own, could do without narrative, without literary values.