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Michael Clark first walked into Colony Room off the street in 1977 (and promptly found himself back on it). This initial encounter with the notorious club, with its owner Muriel Belcher and of course with Bacon, introduced Clark to a world in which he would thrive, and which he would poignantly capture in his penetrating pictures over the coming years. Despite being thrown out, Clark became a friend of Belcher – who affectionately credited him as a ‘cheeky ****’ for his brazen first attempt at entry there - and of her business partner Ian Board, as well as Bacon. Indeed, it was through the enc Michael Clark first walked into Colony Room off the street in 1977 (and promptly found himself back on it). This initial encounter with the notorious club, with its owner Muriel Belcher and of course with Bacon, introduced Clark to a world in which he would thrive, and which he would poignantly capture in his penetrating pictures over the coming years. Despite being thrown out, Clark became a friend of Belcher – who affectionately credited him as a ‘cheeky ****’ for his brazen first attempt at entry there - and of her business partner Ian Board, as well as Bacon. Indeed, it was through the encouragement of Bacon, Belcher and Board that Clark took up painting again, having earlier abandoned it. It was also through Bacon and Belcher that he was introduced to Valerie Beston, with whom Clark had the almost unheard-of honour of being on first-name terms. Very early on, she told him, ‘You have the gift, and I am going to support you,’ and began buying his pictures, including the first one he ever sold. This was her direct means of supporting artists, one that had helped other prestigious people such as Auerbach in its time. She also welcomed Clark often in the Malborough Gallery, showing him Bacon’s works, giving him tea as well as personal advice. Once she even called him into the gallery and presented him with a great surprise - the chance to view and to hold one of his favourite Cézanne paintings, an opportunity she had extended only to the ‘real painters’ – himself, Bacon, Auerbach, Freud. Clark is a self-confessed Bacon fanatic, one who had the added benefit of being his friend and portraitist. Bacon’s influence threads through his works, reappearing even in his conceptual pieces. Be it in the appearance of wounds in his paintings, or in the location of a ‘sound sculpture’ outside a sex shop that Bacon used to frequent (only in part to cash his cheques), his ghostly spectre appears again and again, if only obliquely, in his figurative and conceptual works. For Clark is not a portraitist, although he has created many portraits of people ranging from film directors to the characters of Soho of yesteryear to Royalty to Pop royalty. He is a conceptual artist, for whom the painstakingly accurate depiction of the human face is only one of his means or media, and conversation with him ranges from the diverse influences of Rimbaud and Nauman as well as Holbein and Rembrandt.
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