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 ...

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 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.