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A corner of Francis Bacon's studio                     Andy Warhol in his studio
       Photograph Peter Stark                                 Photograph Ken Hyman
       'Among suggestive writings asserting   Bachelors, Even and Etant Données . . . have   whose name is inscribed on the painting in
       similarities between Sickert and Bacon are   links in iconography and voyeurism with   capitals by Sickert.
       Max Kozloff, Sickert's Unsentimental   Sickert's work, and whose Duchamp/   9   1957, rep. Alley, op. cit., Fig. 140.
       Journey', in Art News, April 1967,   Selavy duality is paralleled by Sickert's   1° David Sylvester, 'Shapes in a Murky
        pp.51-53 and 71-72, and John Russell,   separate Walter/Richard personas, on which   Pond', New Statesman, 4 June 1960, pp. 960-961.
       Francis Bacon, 1971, p.118.          see Baron, Sickert, 1973, pp.170-171.   " Andrew Forge, 'The Confident Artist',
       2 See Ronald Alley, Francis Bacon, 1964,   The figure seated, hand on head, at the   in The Listener, 16 June 196o, pp. 1051-3.
       p.3o, for an account of the use of a   gaming table in The System 1924-26, rep.   12   Andrew Forge, on Sickert's photo-based
       photograph in a reproduced work of 1933.   English Paintings from the Bevan Collection,   portrait of Hugh Walpole in The Listener,
        See David Sylvester, Interviews with   Anthony d'Offay, April—May 1975 (19),   7 October 1965, pp.531-2.
       Francis Bacon, 1975, p.38.           has been identified with Sickert.   ' 13  Sickert, 1973, pp.171-2.
        See Alley, op. cit., p.28.          ' Alley, op. cit., Fig 108.        14  This Sickert portrait, The Hon. Lady Fry,
       5  Whose The Bride Stripped Bare by her   8Based on a photograph by Bertram Park,    is now owned by the Brighton City Art Gallery.
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