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The queer saint with a taste for rough trade
Anyone who’s read anything about mid-century British culture will have come across the name Peter Watson.
His name appears in various painting provenances and literary biographies of the period, but many may still only know him by name.
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This biography, Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson, outlines the life of this elusive arts patron and sets Watson at the heart of the cultural life of the period. The book indirectly gives us an insight into the British art scene of the Thirties, Forties and Fifties.
The roll call of Watson’s acquaintances is a dazzling roster of luminaries; Picasso, Bacon, Camus, Dalí, Orwell, Capote, Giacometti and Visconti all appear, not to mention many great collectors and sponsors of avant-garde art, along with a picante mix of princes, aristocrats and rent boys.
Born in 1908, Peter Watson was the son of a margarine magnate who had bought a manor and title with his fortune.
Watson rose above the sn