DON BACHARDY: A LIFE IN PORTRAITS PEONY and masterfully thought through

and masterfully thought through

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Susan Green

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DON BACHARDY: A LIFE IN PORTRAITS PEONY and masterfully thought throughA career survey of the Los Angeles portrait artist known for his spontaneous, blunt portrayals. Over the past seven decades, Santa Monicabased artist Don Bachardy (b. 1934) has created thousands of visceral, compelling portraits from life. Many of these poignant renderings are of British American writer Christopher Isherwood, the openly gay icon who was Bachardys longtime partner. Other subjects include such famous figures as Bette Davis, W. H. Auden,