He sometimes pinches the maids till their arms are as many colours as a mackerel’s back.

The paintings seem concerned, if understatedly, about despoliation and other human tweakings of the landscape.

The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.

Here is the use of steroids, human growth hormone and Viagra. Here are exact, disturbing details about his suicide. His heroin habit is recounted. So is his frequent dickishness to many who loved and worked with him.