un verdadero patroncito del paTronarte...
The Pleasure Principle / Not to be Reproduced
René Magritte
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
June 24-Oct 13 2014
en serio, no pude ver los delfines... @TheDateReport, the pervert test... i could not see the dolphins...
Why Francis Bacon destroyed his portrait of Cecil Beaton @DangerousMinds... Francis expected that I would be shocked. He was a little disconcerted. He said it gave him a certain pain to show it to me, but if I didn’t like it I needn’t buy it. The Marlborough Gallery would want it. I stammered: ‘Well—I can’t say what I think of it. It’s so utterly different from anything of yours I’ve ever seen!’
‘This is Francis, and I’ve just destroyed your portrait.’It was Francis. In an ecstatic voice he said:
‘No—I don’t like my friends to have something of mine they don’t like. And I often destroy my work in any case; in fact, I’ve destroyed most of the pictures for the Marlborough. Only I just wanted to let you know so that you needn’t pay me.’‘But why? You said you liked it? You thought it such a good work, and that’s all that matters!’
It seemed little to Francis to waste all that work. He seemed jubilant at not getting paid, at not finishing a picture. He said that perhaps, one day he’d start again, or do one from memory: ‘They often turn out the best,’ he said.