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Bacon’s relationship with George Dyer, whom he met in late 1963, was stormy and ultimately proved tragic. Two days before the opening of the Francis Bacon Retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1971, Dyer was found dead from a drink and drugs overdose in the bathroom of the Hotel des Saint-Pères in Paris.
Only in his death did George Dyer finally ensure his social relevance and finally secure his immortality “in the iconography of the British face” (John Russell, Francis Bacon, London 1971, p. 163).
May 14, 2024 · Crime is a gamy ingredient in the story of Francis Bacon, the Irish-born British figurative painter who was best known for his writhing portraits and screaming popes.
Sep 11, 2019 · “Portrait of George Dyer in a Mirror” (1968) shows Francis Bacon’s lover, who died of a drug and alcohol overdose in 1971. Credit...
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Mar 21, 2024 · Francis Bacon was a lifelong surveyor of human vulnerability, and nowhere is this undertaking seen more vividly than in such paintings as Portrait of George Dyer Crouching. With this early masterpiece, Bacon bears witness to his fixation with corporeal mutilation, his deep knowledge of art historical tradition, and above all, his love for Dyer ...
Apr 26, 2024 · George Dyer and Francis Bacon in Soho in the 1950s. Photo © John Deakin, Collection: Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Exuberant and gregarious by nature, Bacon nevertheless resumed his round of the bars and drinking clubs of Soho with a wide circle of friends, drifters and hangers-on.
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Three Studies for George Dyer is a small-format triptych painted by the Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon in 1964. It comprises three portraits of Bacon's lover George Dyer : from left to right, a three-quarter view, a right profile, and a face-on view.
