Tuesday, June 25, 2024

 Ruskin Spear
(1911 - 1990)

Ruskin Spear, CBE, RA was an English painter and teacher of art, regarded as one of the foremost British portrait painters of his day. He is the father of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band member Roger Ruskin Spear. 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruskin_Spear

Francis Bacon
1984
Oil on board
76 x 63 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw07062/Francis-Bacon

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