Richard Hamilton
Portrait of the Artist by Francis Bacon
About this artwork
After a meal together in 1969, Hamilton asked artist Francis Bacon to take a photograph of him with a Polaroid camera. The accidental movement of both subject and photographer produced a blurred image, similar to a Bacon painting. Working with oils on collotype copies of the photograph, Hamilton created enlargements of the portrait in order to exaggerate its 'Baconian' character.
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artist:Richard Hamilton (1922 - 2011) English
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title:Portrait of the Artist by Francis Bacon
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date created:1970 - 1971
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materials:Screenprint and collotype on paper (113/140)
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measurements:55.00 x 49.90 cm (paper 82.00 x 69.20 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 1978
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accession number:GMA 2075
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Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton
Hamilton was born in London. During the 1950s he was an influential figure in the move away from Abstract Expressionism towards a more intellectual, conceptual type of work. His early preoccupation with consumer culture and the imagery of advertising makes him one of the forerunners of Pop Art. He...