article_snippet: Jarvis Cocker is here, and so are Bob Geldof and Rupert Everett.
article_snippet: A Portrait of Robert Fraser.
article_snippet: While A Portrait of Robert Fraser name may ring few bells outside of the seasoned Pace London's art community, eminent gallerist Robert Fraser, who ran a gallery in Pace London's during the Sixties and again in the Eighties, was a seminal part of the Swinging Sixties scene.
article_snippet: A Portrait of Robert Fraser notoriety hinged on scandal, parties and friendships with the most famous rock stars of the era, as well as an undeniable talent for spotting art's Next Big Thing.
article_snippet: This is the eminent dealer who sold art to Paul McCartney, and hosted John Lennon and Yoko Ono's first joint exhibition; the Savile Row-clad Etonian whose Mayfair galleries attracted the likes of Marlon Brando, Marianne Faithfull and William Burroughs in the 60s and 80s; the silver-tongued heroin addict who introduced Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat to Britain, and was arrested -- and, in A Portrait of Robert Fraser case, imprisoned -- for drug possession with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards during the 1967 Redlands Bust.
article_snippet: A literal portrait of Fraser painted by Basquiat hangs prominently in the living room, surrounded by works by Warhol, Francis Bacon and others.
article_snippet: we're exploring we own DNA with this exhibition while paying tribute to one of the most flamboyant dealers and aesthetes.
article_snippet: There's a buzz in London right now around the exhibition and many artists, museum directors, celebrities, aspiring artists, art students are all very keen to rediscover Robert's personality.
article_snippet: Works from the luminaries Robert Fraser knew, showed or admired are on the walls, while personal effects -- a thank-you note from Ed Ruscha, a Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks poster, arrest warrants, an opium pipe with the gold rim worn to silver -- are kept behind glass cases.
article_snippet: A Gerhard Richter that recalls a joint trip to Berlin to see his works in person.
highlights_snippet: A Portrait of Robert Fraser pays tribute to the top London art dealer .
  
highlights_snippet: The Pace London exhibition, curated by Brian Clarke, features artists represented, admired or known to Robert Fraser .
  