Devoted to the male form: the story of Henry Miller Fine Art Gallery
went to a print shop in 1987 and asked if they’d got any Warhols. “I was 16 or 17,” the curator says today. “I think the man thought I’d be getting a Marilyn or an Elvis or something really ordinary.” Instead, he ordered, a poster for the film by Rainer Fassbinder based on a book by Jean Genet. The image is all tongue: one man is licking another man’s ear, and the tongue is too red and too long like the devil’s. “He was shocked,” remembers Miller.
The gallery was founded in 2015 and doubles as Miller’s Walthamstow home. There are Persian rugs and chinoiserie, and it’s alland un-fucked up by a child or an animal. There’s art to buy in the hall and the kitchen, more in the living room, all up the stairs, more on the landing, before it all ends in a bedroom. There’s also prosecco. “Because we show them at home,” Miller explains, “I’ve got to sell pictures I love.
The work is exquisite. The pieces date from the 16th century to the present and cover all types of media, but what Miller loves most in a picture is an “alibi”: “It’s easy to think that since ancient Greece the artistic ideal has always been beauty. But actually there’s a whole other tradition that does that, but you just know there’s more going on. Pictures like that really fascinate me.
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