Description RICHARD WILLIAM HAMILTON (British 1922-2011) A PRINT "Portrait of the Artist by Francis Bacon," 1970, collotype and screenprint, signed and numbered in margin in pencil L/R, "R Hamilton 18/140," along with watermark, titled L/L. 23" x 21" Note: In 1969, at the end of a characteristically wine-soaked lunch at Robert Carrier’s London restaurant with the artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Hamilton asked Bacon to photograph him against the drapes of the dining room. The first exposure was blurry from Bacon’s tipsy handling of the Polaroid, but Hamilton found the image to have an affinity with Bacon’s distinctive style of painting. Working with oil on collotype copies of that portrait, Hamilton produced seven studies from which Bacon was to select his favorite. He chose the seventh study in which Hamilton had covered the blurred curtains with a, particularly Bacon-esque violet.-Description from the Met Museum Collection? Provenance: Exhibited in “AN ART HISTORIAN COLLECTS: The David E. Brauer Collection” at the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama February 7 – November 29, 2020; Estate of David E. Brauer, Houston, Texas.
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