Richard Hamilton
“A Portrait of the Artist By Francis Bacon 1970”
Limited Edition Print : Collotype And Screenprint in Colours
Size: 34.09x27.24 inches | 87x69 cm
Edition: From the edition of 140
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Year1970
Hand SignedSigned By the Artist in Pencil And Titled.
Condition Good
Purchased fromAuction House 2020
Story / Additional InfoRichard Hamilton (1922–2011). Title: A Portrait of the Artist by Francis Bacon. Medium: Collotype and screenprint in colours, 1970/71, signed by the artist in pencil and titled. Size: Sheet: 32 1/8 x 27 1/4 in. (81.6 x 69.2 cm) Image: 21 5/8 x 19 3/4 in. (54.9 x 50.2 cm) Published by : Petersburg PressPrinted by: Maurice Payne. 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.This print is a combination of collotype and screenprint. The collotype process involved the artist drawing the design for each colour to be printed onto separate plastic sheets; the image then being photographically transferred onto the glass plates for printing. Literature: Etienne Lullin : Richard Hamilton : Prints and multiples 1939-2002 : catalogue raisonné (Number L. 78).
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