This book, which studies Barcelona’s world of galleries, was born of a commission from the Associació Art Barcelona (Art Barcelona Association) to celebrate the XX anniversary of this group’s foundation. Apart from constituting one of the few works to analyze the history of our country’s galleries, it is also a practical document to discover the current exhibition spaces that can be visited.  The Gallery World in Barcelona is a study in three parts.

This book of extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon by the distinguihed art critic David Sylvester , conducted over a period of twenty-five years (1962-1987), has now been substantially expanded and updated respect the first spanish edition, published by Ediciones Polígrafa on 1977. Then, Graham Greene wrote: ...An exciting document which can rank with the journals of Delacroix and the letters of Gauguin.