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Portrait of Ms Ruby May, Standing
Portrait of Ms Ruby May, Standing is an oil on canvas painting made in 2012 by the British visual artist Leena McCall, portraying her friend Ruby May.
Description.
The painting depicts May, a tattooed black-haired woman, smoking a pipe. May is coolly scrutinizing the viewer, her other hand on her hip, with her trousers unbuttoned such that her pubic hair is visible. McCall's intention in painting May was to explore "how women choose to express their sexual
for Bacon, which the artist later used as source material for some of his most famous images. One of the most notable was "Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorn Standing in a Street in Soho, 1967". Deakin's photos of George Dyer, Muriel Belcher and Henrietta Moraes have also been associated with Bacon's paintings of these sitters.
In February 2012, Bacon's 1963 "Portrait of Henrietta Moraes", based on Deakin's photo, sold for £21.3 million. Deakin's photo of Lucian Freud supplied one of