“Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards,” 1980, by Francis Bacon. (The Estate of Francis Bacon, 80-01. All rights reserved. Private collection, USA.) Review ...

Figure in Movement, a 1976 painting by Francis Bacon that expressively ... along with the artist’s black triptychs, which were painted shortly after Dyer died. The painting has been widely ...

The poster was for an upcoming retrospective on Francis Bacon and isolated ... early spark. Part of Bacon’s “Black Triptychs” series, it follows the death of Bacon’s model and lover ...

The first single-panel portrait that Francis Bacon painted of his ... one of two major series of Dyer created by Bacon. The second are The Black Triptychs painted after Dyer’s suicide in 1971 ...

A photograph, printed in Vogue in 1952, captures Francis Bacon in his element ... To judge by his “Black Triptychs”, completed in the wake of Dyer’s death, the answer is unclear.

The received wisdom about artist Francis ... art in Bacon’s hands, of course, wasn’t a polite affair. His reinvention of the portrait and his novel uses for large-scale triptychs were ...

© Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2024 The National Portrait Gallery’s (NPG) first Francis Bacon exhibition is an overdue ...

“I have always been very moved by pictures about slaughterhouses and meat,” the painter Francis Bacon ... makes the effort. Bacon went on to paint many more triptychs, including a lot of ...