Three Studies for a Portrait of Muriel Belcher information
1966 painting by Francis Bacon
Three Studies of Muriel Belcher, 1966, 35.5 x 30.5cm. Private collection
Three Studies for a portrait of Muriel Belcher is an oil-on-canvas triptych painting by the Irish born English artist Francis Bacon, completed in 1966. It portrays Muriel Belcher, described by musician George Melly as a "benevolent witch",[1] and the charismatic founder and proprietress of The Colony Room Club, a private drinking house at 41 Dean Street, Soho, London, where Bacon was a regular throughout the late 1940s to late 1960s.[2] The two became friends soon after she opened the club in 1948, and Bacon helped her cultivate its reputation as a seedy but convivial meeting place for artists, writers, musicians, homosexuals and bohemians.[3] At its height, regular patrons included Lucian Freud, Jeffrey Bernard, John Deakin and Henrietta Moraes.[4]
Belcher died in 1979 in her early 70s.[1] Having been exhibited at Tate, London, and Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris,[5] the triptych is currently was as of 2022 in a private collection.
^ abWheatcroft, Geoffrey. "Den Mother to the Louche and Famous. The New York Times, 5 June 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2018
^Ficacci (2003), p. 93
^Muir (2002), p. 30
^Farr et al. (1999), p. 140
^"Three Studies of Muriel Belcher". Estate of Francis Bacon. Retrieved 13 October 2018
and 16 Related for: Three Studies for a Portrait of Muriel Belcher information
and MurielBelcher as Mim Gunter. 1998: Bacon, Belcher and the club were featured in John Maybury's film Love Is the Devil: StudyforaPortraitof Francis...
Portraitof George Dyer and Lucian Freud was a 1967 oil-on-canvas painting by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon, which he destroyed before it left his...
images. One of the most notable was Portraitof Isabel Rawsthorn Standing in a Street in Soho, 1967. Deakin's photos of George Dyer, MurielBelcher and Henrietta...
Andrew Pulver: The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraitsof John Berger review – Tilda Swinton's demonstration of affection, theguardian.com, 16 February 2016...
work of John Belcher, Edgar Wood and Arthur Beresford Pite. Around 1898 Holden began living with Margaret Steadman (née Macdonald, 1865–1954), a nurse...
Playfair's touring production of The Way of the World, playing Fainall. While on that tour he married Muriel Hewitt, a young member of Doran's company, known...
outcome of the 2008 presidential election. A 2010 study in the journal Electoral Studies found that "her campaign performance cost McCain just under 2% of the...
anatomical nomenclature of the Inupiat language suggests that members of the culture shared a similar interest. Father Oleksa's brief portrait claims that she...
Arthur Belcher Cauty, Chairman of the National Maritime Board. William Henry Coates, PhD, a Deputy Chairman, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. For services...
Global Information