I don’t mind it really – I much prefer it to ‘drying up’. I always hated that as it involves the unrecognised job of ‘putting away’. People will thank you if you ‘wash up’ – or even if you ‘dry up’ – but nobody ever recognises ‘putting away’.
Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton (1922 − 2011)
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST BY FRANCIS BACON
1970/71€3,200
This was part of a series of Hamilton’s where he was exploring whether painters could retain their style and visual language whilst using mechanical tools, like a polaroid camera.