Judith Scott

Judith Scott, Leon A. Borensztein, 1999

Interview

Video interview with John Stezaker, recorded 6 February 2006. From Tate Britain.

Caroline Blackwood 1953-55

Caroline and Lucian the day after their marriage, 1953
Caroline in Soho, London, 1955
With Cyril Connolly outside Wheeler's restaurant in Soho, London, 1954

Wanted

Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, 1951 (oil on copper) Wanted poster designed by Lucian Freud in 2001. The portrait was stolen from an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 1998, sometime between 11 AM and 3 PM, May 27, and disappeared without a trace.


"Posters beg Berliners to bring back the Bacon" , The Guardian, June 22, 2001

"Bringing home the Bacon" , The Guardian, June 23, 2001

Francis Bacon by Lucian Freud 1957

Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, 1956-57 (oil and charcoal on canvas, 35.5 x 35.5 cm)

Lucian Freud Self Portrait 1952

Self Portrait, Lucian Freud, 1952 (oil on copper, 12,5 x 9,5 cm)

Lucian Freud by John Deakin c 1960s

Lucian Freud, John Deakin, c 1960s (from The Estate of Francis Bacon)

Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon 1964

Three Studies for Portrait of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, 1964

Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud by Harry Diamond 1972

Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud in Dean Street Soho, Harry Diamond, 1974


Bacon and Freud met in 1945 through the artist Graham Sutherland and became close friends.
At one point, they met on an almost daily basis, frequently at The Colony Room in Soho.

Francis Bacon by Clive Barker 1977

Francis Bacon, Clive Barker, 1977

Three Studies for Self-Portrait 1975

Three Studies for Self-Portrait, Francis Bacon, France, 1975

Francis Bacon by Jane Bown 1985

Francis Bacon, Jane Bown, 1985

Jane Bown talks about what it was like photographing the artist Francis Bacon in his London studio,
in The Guardian, October 10, 2008.

Francis Bacon by Jane Bown 1985

Francis Bacon, Jane Bown, 1985

Cecil Beaton by Francis Bacon

Cecil Beaton in Group Portrait with Friends, about a portrait Francis Bacon painted of him in 1960; cited by Simon Ofield in his essay
Cecil Beaton: Designs on Francis Bacon (p. 33). A short while after it was finished Bacon destroyed the painting. Ofield writes:

Bacon rang Beaton and explained that he did not want him to have a painting he did not like. Beaton wrote in his diary that evening that
he was sorry the canvas was ‘destroyed and that there is no visible result from all those delightful, interesting and rare mornings’.

Francis Bacon by Cecil Beaton 1959

Francis Bacon, Cecil Beaton, 1959

Francis Bacon by Cecil Beaton 1951

Francis Bacon, Cecil Beaton, 1951

At the Beach, 1952

Jackson Pollock, Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner and unidentified child at the beach, unidentified photographer, ca. 1952

Helen Frankenthaler, 1956

Painter Helen Frankenthaler sitting amidst her art. Gordon Parks, 1956