Don Bachardy
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Don Bachardy | |
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Born | Donald Jess Bachardy May 18, 1934 Los Angeles, California, US |
Known for | Portrait artist |
Partner | Christopher Isherwood (1953–1986, Isherwood's death) |
Donald Jess Bachardy (born May 18, 1934) is an American portrait artist. He resides in Santa Monica, California. Bachardy was the partner of Christopher Isherwood for over 30 years.
Early life
Born in Los Angeles, California, Bachardy studied at the
Work
Bachardy has had many one-man exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston and New York City. More recently, he exhibited at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, in 2004–2005.
His works reside in the permanent collections of the
Six books of his work have been published. His life and works are also documented in Terry Sanders' film The Eyes of Don Bachardy. He collaborated with Isherwood on Frankenstein: The True Story (1973). His book Stars in My Eyes (2000), about celebrated people whom he had painted, became a number one best-seller in Los Angeles. Bachardy's most haunting and eloquent published collection, "Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood" in 1990 contains the dying and deceased Isherwood for the last time in his eyes.
One of Bachardy's most notable works is the official gubernatorial portrait of Jerry Brown that hangs in the California State Capitol Museum.
Most recently, Bachardy made a cameo appearance in the movie
Personal life
Bachardy still lives in his and Isherwood's Santa Monica home (his place of residence for over 50 years), where he paints portraits for gallery shows and on a commission basis. In January 2010 he showed a retrospective of self-portraits (from 1959–2009) at Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica.
Works
- Frankenstein: The True Story. 1973 (with Christopher Isherwood)
- Don Bachardy: Drawings. Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park 1973
- October / O. Methuen, London 1983 (with Christopher Isherwood), ISBN 0-413-50040-3
- One Hundred Drawings. Twelvetrees Press, Los Angeles 1983
- 70 × 1 Drawings. Illuminati, 1983
- Drawings of the male nude (including ISBN 0-942642-18-X[3]
- Christopher Isherwood: Last drawings. Faber and Faber, London/Boston 1990, ISBN 0-571-14075-0(mit John Russell, Stephen Spender)
- Short cuts: the screenplay. Capra Press, Santa Barbara 1993 (with Robert Altmann, Frank Barhydt), ISBN 0-88496-378-0
- Observant Eye: Portrait Drawings By Don Bachardy. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996
- The Portrait. Imprenta Glorias, Los Angeles 1997 (with Gloria Stuart)
- Stars In My Eyes. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 2000, ISBN 0-299-16730-5
- The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, edited by Katherine Bucknell. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2014. ISBN 9780374105174
- Hollywood. Glitterati 2014, ISBN 978-0991341924
- Don Bachardy: Nudes. Craig Krull Gallery 2017, ISBN 978-0692843291
Filmography
- Frankenstein: The True Story (TV Movie 1972 teleplay – writer, with Isherwood)
- The Rose Tattoo (1955 – Passenger in Back Seat of Car)
- Rich and Famous (1981 – Malibu Party Guest)
- Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country (1993 documentary – himself)
- Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007 documentary – himself)
- Finding Lee Mullican (2008 documentary – himself)
- Huxley on Huxley (2009 documentary – himself)
- A Single Man (2009 film – professor)
- Christopher and His Kind (2011 TV movie – consultant)
- Hockney (2014 documentary – himself)
- Truman Capote: Enfant Terrible Der Amerikanischen Literatur (2016 TV Movie documentary – himself)
See also
- Peter Parker, Isherwood: A Life (2004).
- Daniel Curzon, Remembering Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. In: Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, Volume 6 (2004), Issue 1.
- Lee Prosser, Isherwood, Bowles, Vedanta, Wicca, and Me, (2001), ISBN 0-595-20284-5.
References
- ^ Eric Gutierrez, "Tom Ford was right about Isherwood". The Times. February 5, 2010.
- ^ Ann Harold (02-15-2010), "A Brush With Life", LAmag.com. "Slide show - A Brush with Life - Los Angeles magazine". Archived from the original on October 28, 2010. Retrieved May 31, 2010.
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External links
- The Eyes of Don Bachardy (American Film Foundation)
- Portraits by Don Bachardy Archived September 16, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
- Nudes by Don Bachardy Archived September 30, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
- Don Bachardy at Craig Krull Gallery Archived August 7, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
- Oral history interview with Don Bachardy, 2009 May 21 – Oct 7 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
- Don Bachardy at IMDb