In this week’s column, let’s revisit 1998’s Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis ... that Bacon (Derek Jacobi) had in the latter portion of his career with George Dyer ...

The gravest portrait of all is the Triptych May-June, 1973 where we see Bacon’s lover, George Dyer, through a hotel bathroom door. He’s enveloped in blackness, lurching towards death.

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come ... The gravest portrait of all is the Triptych May-June, 1973 where we see Bacon’s lover, George Dyer, through a hotel ...

The poster was for an upcoming retrospective on Francis Bacon and isolated the left-hand panel of the painter’s Triptych (1972 ... s model and lover George Dyer, whom the London-based artist ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992 ... of his doomed lover, George Dyer (who killed himself in a hotel room aged 37) sees his face "brutally sliced in half"; a panel from a triptych of 1973 self-portraits ...

Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery has the perfect subject in its stirring, splendid new show Francis Bacon: Human Presence.

Francis Bacon’s distorted forms ... a scream of pain made tangible. When his lover, George Dyer, took his life a decade later, two days before Bacon opened a major Paris exhibition, we see his grief ...

Has the Francis ... Bacon and with whom he remained preoccupied for decades – including Lucian Freud, Soho’s Colony Room proprietor Muriel Belcher, and his petty criminal lover George Dyer ...

There’s a limit to how much you can say about Francis Bacon ... It starts with a pope and ends with a violent triptych of his lover George Dyer, and in between it journeys from friends to ...

The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s ... of his lover George Dyer, in the bathroom of a Paris hotel in 1971. The triptych, which depicts ...

Francis Bacon reportedly met his muse George Dyer in a London pub in ... He painted several three-part studies of Dyer, such as the triptych pictured here. Many of Bacon’s portraits of Dyer ...