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In the mid-1960s American photographer Peter Beard met the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon at one of Bacons openings at the Marlborough Gallery in London. Access more artwork lots and estimated realized auction prices on MutualArt.

1970s Peter Beard Francis Bacon Portrait

Beard also shot Bacon for his own portraits once saying.

. He toured with Truman Capote Beard and Truman Capote were chosen to cover the 1972 Rolling Stones tour for Rolling Stone magazine and stayed in the same hotel in Kansas City that Capote had been in whilst researching In Cold. Signed titled and dated on the reverse Francis Bacon Study for Portrait 1976 oil on canvas two canvases 36 x 30 cm. Beard was raised in New York City Alabama and Long Island.

Beards artistry may be seen as an exquisite synthesis of three major sources. Francis Bacon and Peter Beard exhibition opens at Ordovas Gallery in London Monday April 12 2021. Intended as a celebration of Beards life the exhibition features works from the period of the two artists.

Signed titled dated and inscribed including a quote from Joseph Conrad in blood and ink margin recto. Man without a dog Ode to Bacon Alia Bay Shingle Island Lake Turkana 19651998 Wild Life. 115 x 9 cm.

Unique gelatin silver print with blood and ink inscriptions artwork and illustrations in original frame printed 1997. Francis Bacon London 1972 - 1997 By Peter Beard. Despite working on different sides of the world the two artists shared deeply similar personal and creative passions.

Catalogue Raisonné by Martin Harrison and Rebecca Daniels which was published by The Estate of Francis Bacon in 2016. Francis Bacon and Peter Beard at Ordovas. The occasion was the launch of Beards book on the destruction of wildlife in Africa The End of the Game.

Learn more about the piece and artist and its final selling price. Francis Bacon and Peter Beard. 4½ x 3½ in.

Beard quickly became the subject of many gossip columns in the Montauk area as a wild man about town. A mixture of adventurer aristocrat artist and bon vivant taken from a romantic adventure novel although in reality it was as he defined himself in 1993 The Black Sheep of a Wall Street Family Portrait of Peter Beard by Francis Bacon. Learn more about the piece and artist and its final selling price.

Francis Bacon and Peter Beard explores the friendship between Francis Bacon 19091992 and Peter Beard his long-time friend and muse. DutchFlemish PicassoBraque and by his own account the dark savagery of Francis Bacon. As the writer Terry Southern once described.

The likes of Andy Warhol Salvador Dali The Rolling Stones Truman Capote and Francis Bacon made note of this and took him under their wings. Francis Bacon and Peter Beard explores the friendship between Francis Bacon 19091992 and his long-time friend and muse the artist Peter Beard 19382020 who despite working on different sides of the world shared deeply similar personal and creative passions. Given the frank realism in Bacons Modernist.

January 25 2021 Wild Life. Francis Bacon and Peter Beard is a new exhibition at Ordovas in London which explores the friendship between Francis Bacon 19091992 and his long-time friend and muse the artist Peter Beard 19382020. They became lifelong friends.

They became closer in the early 70s and despite living on opposite sides of the Atlantic their friendship endured. Both artist and activist Beards work captures the plight of a wildlife in Africa. Bacon regarded Beard as a muse of his painting between 20 and 25 portraits of the photographer including Three Studies for a Portrait of Peter Beard 1975.

The following Notes for readers are extracted from the catalogue raisonné Vol1 p102 and 103 and elaborate on the methodology and thinking. Beards images of African wildlife impressed Bacon who particularly admired his aerial photographs of dead elephants. Francis Bacon and Peter Beard explores the friendship between Francis Bacon 19091992 and his longtime friend and muse the artist Peter Beard 19382020 who despite working on dierent sides of the world shared deeply similar personal and creative passions.

1938 Francis Bacon on his rooftop 80 Narrow Street Lon done during the dead elephant interviews for the End of the Game 1975. Peter Beard b1938 is an American photographer known for his photographs of Africa that combine painting drawing and annotation. He kept diaries and began making photographs at a young age.

Beard first met Bacon in 1967 at his exhibition at the Marlborough New London. Beard and Bacon shared many interests including the depiction of wild animals obsessive collection of stimulating imagery and literature surrounding the existential complexity of white involvement in Africa. View Francis Bacon on his roof at 80 Narrow Street London soon to be lost gambling during the dead elephant interviews March by Peter Beard sold at Photographs on London Auction 20 May 2021.

Artist adventurer socialite and playboy Beards reputation started to take on a life of its. The exhibition explores the friendship between Francis Bacon 19091992 and his long-time friend and muse the artist Peter Beard 19382020 who. Bacon had recently purchased Beards The End of the Game which presented images of the destruction of Africas elephant population in the now acclaimed 1965 book.

View Francis Bacon in his studio 7 Reese Mews off the Old Brompton Road London a painting later destroyed by Peter Beard sold at Photographs on London Auction 25 October 2019. Francis Bacon and Peter Beard during The Dead Elephant Interviews 1970s. Not for nothing Beard had been frequently described as half Tarzan half Lord Byron.

Olsson estimates that Beard is the subject of between 20 and 25 of Francis Bacons paintings in the late 1970s. Peter Beard 19382020 was an American artist and writer whose visceral documentary approach to artmaking garnered great critical acclaim. The artists Francis Bacon and Peter Beard first met in 1967 at a show of Bacons work in London.

View 2 Works. Francis Bacon first met the American wildlife photographer and writer Peter Beard at the Clermont Club in London in 1965. 14 ⅛ x 11 ⅞ in each.

Im the one person by the way who Bacon ever let photograph his work in progress. Francis Bacon and Peter Beard. Francis Bacon first met the American artist photographer diarist and writer Peter Beard born 1938 in the mid 1960s.

Its the story of how the superstar of contemporary painting Francis Bacon 1908-1992 and the legendary adventurer and photographer Peter Beard 1938-2020 met one another liked one another and nurtured a strong bond which was also bolstered through their extensive correspondence. Tue-Fri 10am-6pm Sat 11am-3pm. Tue-Fri 10am-6pm Sat 11am-3pm.

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