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Studies For A Portrait

Tuesday 30th March - Sunday 23rd May

“Impressive emotional power… The script is shrewd and funny and very eloquent about twentieth-century art”. - TIME OUT Critics’ Choice

Internationally-acclaimed American artist Julian Barker, whose fame ranks alongside that of Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon, has just months to live. Ravaged with pancreatic cancer, Julian retreats to his East Hampton beach house to prepare for artistic immortality. He is cared for by his younger partner Chad, who is set to inherit his multi-million dollar estate and his priceless iconic paintings. The peace is interrupted by Julian’s former lover Marcus, who is determined to stake his claim and further complicated by the arrival of Chad’s own younger boyfriend, a seemingly naïve 23-year old model. With Julian’s death imminent, each man jockeys for position and control.