JOHN DEAKIN; AND DANIEL FARSON
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JOHN DEAKIN; AND DANIEL FARSON

Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, Painters, 1950s

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JOHN DEAKIN; AND DANIEL FARSON
Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, Painters, 1950s
3 gelatin silver prints
Deakin's double portrait: 5½ x 11in. (14 x 28cm.)
Farson's head shots: each approx. 11¾ x 8½in. (29.1 x 21.5cm.) (3)
Provenance
From the artist to Elizabeth Smart & George Barker;
by descent to their daughter Georgina Barker.
Literature
The print of Deakin's double portrait is reproduced in Muir, John Deakin Photographs, Schirmer/Mosel, 1996, pp.92-93.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The double portrait is by John Deakin, the individual head shots by Daniel Farson.

Writer and photographer Daniel Farson was a central figure in the Soho bohemia of the 1950s and became a key witness to the lives of the talented but unpredictable characters that constituted this world. 'Deakin referred to me as the jeunesse dorée, though I had little idea what this meant,' he later recounted. And, recalling the subjects of the present portraits he noted that 'invariably smouldering and shouting along the bar were the two formidable Scottish painters, Robert Colquoun and Robert MacBryde, known as the Two Roberts.' (The Guilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon, Century, 1993, pp.69, 79)

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