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Tales from the Colony Room: Art and Bohemia Exhibition dates: 22 April – 6 June 2020 Private view: 22 April, 6 pm – 9 pm Amelia Troubridge, Michael Wojas hoovering at The Colony Rooms, 2008, Giclée digital archival print, 16 x 12 in. © Amelia Troubridge. Courtesy of Dellasposa Galley In April, Dellasposa gallery will present Tales from the Colony Room: Art and Bohemia, a group exhibition of artists associated with The Colony Room Club. For more than fifty years this notorious Soho drinking den attracted some of the most important names in British art, from Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud to Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. The exhibition will feature works by Bacon, Freud, Hirst and Emin, along with pieces by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Sir Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, Frank Auerbach, Keith Coventry and Langlands and Bell, and many other key modern and contemporary British artists. Dellasposa I 2A Bathurst Street I London I W2 2SD I t: +44 (0) 20 32 86 10 17 I www.dellasposa.com Curated by the artist and author Darren Coffield, the exhibition will feature works by artists dating from 1948 up to when it closed in 2008, and coincides with the book launch of a new biography of the club by Darren Coffield entitled Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia. For press information, please contact Albany Arts Communications: Mark Inglefield Carla von der Becke [email protected] [email protected] t: +44 (0) 20 78 79 88 95; m: +44 (0) 75 84 19 95 00 t: +44 (0) 20 78 79 88 95; m: +44 (0) 79 74 25 29 94 Notes to Editors: The Colony Room Club The Colony Room, formerly located at 41 Dean Street, Soho, was founded in 1948 by Muriel Belcher. It quickly became a haven for artists, poets, radicals and free thinkers. The club attracted Soho’s artistic elite, including Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, George Melly and Jeffrey Bernard, as well as people from aristocratic and political circles such as Princess Margaret, William Burroughs, David Bowie and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Bacon was a founder and lifelong member who helped to get rich patrons up its notoriously filthy stairs and into the room’s iconic green walls. After Belcher’s death in 1979, the club continued under the stewardship of her long-term barman Ian Board until his death in 1994. Throughout the 1990’s the club experienced a renaissance when the so-called YBAs (Young British Artists) including Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin began frequenting the club. The Colony Room closed in 2008. @Dellasposa @DellasposaFineArt @Dellasposa Dellasposa I 2A Bathurst Street I London I W2 2SD I t: +44 (0) 20 32 86 10 17 I www.dellasposa.com .

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