until Sunday December 14 2014

The Courtland Gallery
T : +44 (0)20 7848 2526
Somerset House
WC2R 0RN London
United Kingdom

Regrets is a haunting series of ten paintings and drawings inspired by an old photograph of Lucian Freud posing in Francis Bacon’s London studio.
Johns transformed the image by copying, mirroring and doubling it. Unexpectedly, the form of a skull emerged in his new composition, like an apparition.

Johns and reworked the subject in a variety of media, creating works that can be experienced as a profound meditation on mortality, creativity and memory.