article_snippet: Harriet Vyner, a long-time friend of Clarke and Fraser, and author of the Fraser biography Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Fraser, has been collaborating with his on the catalog.
article_snippet: And that's what people often felt about going to the Robert Fraser gallery in both incarnations.
article_snippet: (Robert Fraser died of AIDS-related illness in 1986 at the age of 49.)
article_snippet: To hear Clarke speak about Robert Fraser is to have assumptions alternately challenged, rebuked and confirmed.
article_snippet: An inscribed copy of an Edward Burne-Jones biography was gifted from Robert Fraser to Clarke.
article_snippet: There was more to Robert Fraser, it seems, than the people Robert Fraser associated with.
article_snippet: There is always around Robert this aura of all these celebrities and things like that, and it's true that they were there, but it wasn't anything that Robert either curried or boasted about," Clarke says.
article_snippet: Clarke remembers discussing Truman Capote with Robert Fraser at length during a stay in New York.
article_snippet: Clarke didn't realize the two were friends until Truman Capote came over to friends table a few nights later to hug Robert Fraser.
article_snippet: Similarly, Vyner remembers Robert Fraser fawning over Prick up Your Ears, John Lahr's 1978 biography of playwright Joe Orton, without once mentioning that Clarke was an early backer of Orton's productions.
article_snippet: and I get to chatting about the exhibition, the party, and Fraser.
article_snippet: She enjoyed the party, but didn't -- doesn't -- know much about Fraser.
article_snippet: I recall something Clarke told me a few weeks prior, an effort to summarize the spirit of Fraser's galleries and Fraser infamous parties, studded with stars and doused in glamor and excitement.
highlights_snippet: Robert Fraser was best known for being arrested with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards for drug possession in 1967 .