Duggie Fields, Pop Artist and Counterculture Icon, Dies at 76

Duggie Fields, the British Pop artist whose work defined 1960s Swinging London, has died at age 76. His paintings featured elegantly dressed figures with exposed intimate anatomy, drawing inspiration from Stan Lee comics and rendered in bold, flat graphic style. Fields became a counterculture icon, designing posters for Stanley Kubrick, modeling for Comme Des Garçons, and inspiring fashion designers Zandra Rhodes and Rei Kawakubo. He is credited with starting the Free The Nipple Movement. After graduating from Chelsea School of Art, Fields shared an Earl's Court apartment with Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, later transforming the space into a maximalist studio-home for 50 years, designing furnishings including a lips-and-legs sofa homage to Man Ray. In 2018, Glasgow's Modern Institute partially recreated his apartment, showcasing his pop and art-historical references from Japanese advertising to Joan Miró, Salvador Dali, and Piet Mondrian. His subjects included fashion and celebrity figures, sometimes with severed limbs reminiscent of classical statuary damage.