Category: MPHQ Pictures

London Premiere

BACON’S HISTORIES: Study for a Portrait at All is Joy, 75 Dean Street London.

28th February 7pm. Entrance free.

MPHQ Pictures and All is Joy London present the first cinema screening of Martha Parsey’s motion picture artwork BACON’S HISTORIES: Study for a Portrait in London. The film explores the influence of the Greeks and Egyptians on Bacon’s oeuvre and brings together both archive footage and unpublished recordings of Francis Bacon in interview with David Sylvester as well as interviews with his most frequently painted female subject Henrietta Moraes.

Shot on location in Greece, London, Paris, Spain, Egypt, South Africa and Germany. In English, French, Greek and Russian with English subtitles.

Recut MODEL AND ARTIST: Henrietta Moraes and Francis Bacon

A recut of the film ‘Model and Artist; Henrietta Moraes and Francis Bacon’.

Meeting Francis Bacon in London’s Soho of the 1960s, Henrietta Moraes (1931-1999) became a close friend of Bacon’s and his most frequently painted female subject. In interview at Bacon’s exhibition of small portraits at the Marlborough Gallery, London, Henrietta describes her relationship to Francis Bacon, intercut with Francis Bacon in interview with David ; a final dialogue between model and artist.

The film can be viewed here:

‘Model and Artist; Henrietta Moraes and Francis Bacon’. 2024