Melanie and Me Swimming, 1978-79, Michael Andrews. Tate: Purchased 1979. Photo © Tate, London 2016. Artwork © the Estate of Michael Andrews, courtesy James Hyman Gallery, London
Beyond the Past
GETTY CENTER
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, and R.B. Kitaj variously appropriated, re-imagined, and took inspiration from the “Old Masters.” The Getty's Julian Brooks, co-curator of London Calling, explores some of their interactions with the art of the past.
