Two-page spread in the Independent for Queer Saint
30 Apr 2015

Queer Saint by Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield was the subject of a two-page feature in the Independent yesterday.

‘The curious life of this curious man is the subject of a new book, Queer Saint by Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield. Watson was queer in both senses and the authors trace his wanderings through both the beau monde and the dingy one and lay out the friendships and loves he found in each. The figure that emerges is at once a gay playboy with a taste for rough trade and an aesthete in the purest sense of the word who left an indelible if largely unacknowledged mark on British art.’

‘Queer saint’ Peter Watson left his mark on British culture by bankrolling artworld giants