Triptych–August 1972
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Triptych–August 1972 is a large oil-on-canvas triptych by the British artist Francis Bacon. It was painted in memory of Bacon's lover George Dyer who committed suicide on 24 October 1971, the eve of t
Triptych–August 1972. Tate, London
Dyer and Bacon in the mid-1960s. Photograph by John Deakin
Triptych, May–June 1973
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Triptych, May–June 1973 is a triptych completed in 1973 by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon. The oil-on-canvas was painted in memory of Bacon's lover George Dyer, who committed suicide on the eve o
Triptych–August 1972
…menacing, foreboding presence symbolic of death and of the void through which the subject is about to pass. As with the third triptych in the series, Triptych, May–June 1973, each panel includes a wall with a large open door behind Dyer. It is this doorway that emits the darkness, rendered in black paint, which overwhelms…
Oil on canvas, 198 × 147 cm. Collection of Esther Grether
Study for the Head of George Dyer (1966)
Melencolia I, by Albrecht Dürer, 1514