Dame Mary Quant
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Dame Mary Quant
by Bryan Organ
pencil and collage, 1969
20 1/2 in. x 23 3/8 in. (520 mm x 595 mm) overall
Given by The Redfern Gallery, 2015
Primary Collection
NPG 7012
Artistback to top
- Bryan Organ (1935-), Painter. Artist or producer of 16 portraits, Sitter in 6 portraits.
This portraitback to top
This pencil and collage study relates to an oil painting that the artist made of the sitter in 1969 (location not currently known). It depicts Quant with the Vidal Sassoon haircut that helped to define the London look of the 1960s.
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Current affairs
The Open University is established, based on the vision of Michael Young. Its aims were to offer the chance to study for higher education qualifications on a part time and distance learning basis, giving people who were unable to attend a traditional university because of family, work commitments or disability the opportunity to achieve university degrees.Art and science
The comedy sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus is first broadcast. The Pythons performed surreal sketches that reinvented the comedy tradition, eschewing punch lines for a stream-of-consciousness structure and incongruous authorial interventions: 'and now for something completely different'.Kenneth Tynan's Oh! Calcutta amuses and shocks audiences with full nudity on stage, taking advantage of the recent end to censorship laws.
International
Neil Armstrong takes 'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind' when he becomes the first man on the moon.Concorde makes its first supersonic flight. The plane was designed, developed and manufactured by a joint treaty between the French and English governments.
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