Bill Brandt
Francis Bacon, 1951
Early Gelatin Silver Print
20.9 x 18.7 cms
8 3/16 x 7 5/16 ins
Series: 4. Britain at War
10942
Further images
Provenance
The Estate of Bill BrandtEdwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Exhibitions
Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, 2014.This print exhibited.
Literature
Harper's Bazaar (US edition), August 1952. (illustrated)Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon. In Camera, (Thames and Hudson, 2005 (illustrated p.111)
Titled in ink on verso. Amongst Bill Brandt's best known portraits is one showing Francis Bacon at night, lit by old street lamps, on Primrose Hill in North London. The...
Titled in ink on verso.
Amongst Bill Brandt's best known portraits is one showing Francis Bacon at night, lit by old street lamps, on Primrose Hill in North London. The present print, in contrast, is almost unknown and is the only known print. Undated, it dates from the beginning of the 1950s, judging by the subject's relative youthfulness. It was published in the American edition of Harpers Bazaar in 1952, but appears not to have been exhibited until its inclusion in Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, 2014.
Another photograph by Brandt, with what appear to be the same pair of binoculars, Eaton Square still life, is dated circa 1948.
We are grateful to the Francis Bacon Foundation for their asistance in cataloguing this work.
Copyright The Bill Brandt Archive, London / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York / Zürich. 2018
British Photography / The Hyman Collection
Amongst Bill Brandt's best known portraits is one showing Francis Bacon at night, lit by old street lamps, on Primrose Hill in North London. The present print, in contrast, is almost unknown and is the only known print. Undated, it dates from the beginning of the 1950s, judging by the subject's relative youthfulness. It was published in the American edition of Harpers Bazaar in 1952, but appears not to have been exhibited until its inclusion in Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, 2014.
Another photograph by Brandt, with what appear to be the same pair of binoculars, Eaton Square still life, is dated circa 1948.
We are grateful to the Francis Bacon Foundation for their asistance in cataloguing this work.
Copyright The Bill Brandt Archive, London / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York / Zürich. 2018
British Photography / The Hyman Collection