Collotype and screenprint in colours, 1970/71, signed by the artist in pencil and titled.

Printed by: Maurice Payne

Note: In 1969, at the end of a characteristically wine-soaked lunch at Robert Carrier’s London restaurant with the artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Hamilton asked Bacon to photograph him against the drapes of the dining room. The first exposure was blurry from Bacon’s tipsy handling of the Polaroid, but Hamilton found the image to have an affinity with Bacon’s distinctive style of painting. Working with oil on collotype copies of that portrait, Hamilton produced seven studies from which Bacon was to select his favorite. He chose the seventh study in which Hamilton had covered the blurred curtains with a particularly Bacon-esque violet.

Public Collections: The Metropolitan Museum, New York ; Tate Gallery, London - Reference P80001 ; Victoria & Albert Museum -  Reference: CIRC.486-1976 ; Brooklyn Museum - Accession number 71.135.1 ; National Portrait Gallery:  NPG 5278