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Muriel Belcher (1908–1979) was an English nightclub owner and artist's model who founded and managed the private drinking club The Colony Room. The club opened in 1948 at 41 Dean Street, Soho, London [1] and became known as "Muriel's".
Jun 5, 2009 · Few Americans would recognize the name of Muriel Belcher, or know about the part she played in Francis Bacon’s life.
Apr 25, 2020 · The club was dominated, indeed created, by two personalities – that of its owner and founder, Muriel Belcher, who opened the Colony Room in 1948, and the artist Francis Bacon, who was one...
- Darren Coffield
In the regimented and repressed atmosphere of post-war London, the Colony was heroically bohemian, largely thanks to the dominant personality of its founder, Muriel Belcher, who became a combination of muse, mentor, critic and guru to those who gathered around her, and provided a home for the confluence of talents that will be for ever ...
Three Studies for a portrait of Muriel Belcher is an oil-on-canvas triptych painting by the Irish born English artist Francis Bacon, completed in 1966.
The first, Muriel Belcher, began the mad party in 1948 and somehow it managed to carry on in one form or another into the twenty-first century. Famous for her wit, infamous for her devastating put-downs, Muriel greeted her members with a cheery , ‘Hello Cunty’, upon their arrival.
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Apr 14, 2020 · Founded in 1948 by its lifelong patron Muriel Belcher, the Colony Room Club would, over the next 60 years, become a notoriously louche drinking den of the post-war arts community, the flagship of Soho’s bohemian scene frequented by artists, writers, musicians, aristocrats and pop stars.
