Don Bachardy

Painter

Birthday May 18, 1934

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace California

Age 89 years old

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About

Portrait painter whose works included "Stars in My Eyes" from 2000 and "Drawings of the Male Nude" from 1985.

Before Fame

He was a student at the Chouinard Art Institute and the Slade School of Art. He held his first one-man exhibition in 1961 at London's Redfern Gallery.

Trivia

His work was put on permanent display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art; San Francisco's M.H. de Young Memorial Museum of Art; Washington, D.C.'s Smithsonian Institute; and other prominent galleries.

Family Life

He was the life partner of the novelist Christopher Isherwood. The two met in 1953, when Isherwood was forty-eight and Bachardy was only eighteen.

Associated With

He appeared in a cameo role in the film "A Single Man," which starred Colin Firth.