Triptych August 1972
Francis Bacon
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Date:1972 -
Style:Expressionism -
Series:Black Triptychs -
Theme:George Dyer -
Genre:figurative
Triptych August 1972
Francis Bacon
This work is generally considered one in a series of Black Triptychs which followed the suicide of Bacon’s lover, George Dyer. Dyer appears on the left and Bacon is on the right. The central group is derived from a photograph of wrestlers by Edward Muybridge, but also suggests a more sexual encounter. The seated figures and their coupling are set against black voids and the central flurry has been seen as ‘a life-and death struggle’.
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