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.

Updated before 2020

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Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton