Don Bachardy "Christopher Isherwood; Last Drawing"
Cheim & Read
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Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of drawings by Los Angeles painter Don Bachardy. The show intimately documents the last six months of esteemed writer Christopher Isherwood's life. Barchardy's long-time partner, Isherwood died of prostate cancer in 1986.
As Isherwood's cancer progressed, Bachardy made almost daily drawings of his partner's journey, an attempt to make even death a process the two could experience together. The resulting portraits are witness to a mind and body in transition. As Isherwood's illness advanced, the drawings changed accordingly—it was more difficult for Isherwood to cooperate with the sittings, and the time frame in which to make them rapidly decreased. As death neared, the drawings became sketchier and unmediated—Bachardy would sometimes do up to nine or ten images a day.
The last portraits in the series were made after Isherwood's final breaths on January 4, 1986.
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from January 06, 2009 to February 07, 2009