Bruce Bernard

Leigh Bowery and Nicola Bateman Posing for "And the Husband" by Lucian Freud

Maker

Bruce Bernard (British, 1928 - 2000)

Title

Leigh Bowery and Nicola Bateman Posing for "And the Husband" by Lucian Freud

Year

1993

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

C print

Supports

Dimensions

Sheet: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--verso, in blue ink on label, LR:B Bernard 20/25; black ink stamp, LR:© PHOTO BRUCE BERNARD

Identification

Edition

20/25

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Scott and Cindy Burns

Object Number

1999.11.1

Type

Exhibition History

Changing Poses
The Artist's Model
Nov 12, 2010 – Jun 06, 2011

Label copy

Bruce Bernard, best known as the picture editor for London’s Sunday Times Magazine from 1974 to 1981, was close friends with the English painter Lucian Freud. This photograph depicts two of Freud’s primary models arranged for the creation of a large-scale oil painting. It is the third in a triptych series of increasingly more tightly cropped images, documenting Freud’s working process and revealing details about the studio space that do not appear in the finished painting.

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Bruce Bernard (British, 1928 - 2000)
Leigh Bowery and Nicola Bateman Posing for "And the Husband" by Lucian Freud, 1993
Color chromogenic print
Sheet: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 inches)
Gift of Scott and Cindy Burns 1999.11.1

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