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2 days ago · We may have crime to thank for introducing Bacon to his lover and muse, George Dyer. In a meet-cute undreamt of in the realm of romcoms and dating apps, Dyer was a burglar who broke into Bacon’s ...
200 cm × 150 cm (78 in × 58 in) Location. Private Collection. Portrait of George Dyer Talking is an oil painting on canvas executed in 1966 by the British painter Francis Bacon. It is a portrait of his lover George Dyer made at the height of Bacon's creative power. It depicts Dyer sitting on a revolving office stool in a luridly coloured room.
- 200 cm × 150 cm (78 in × 58 in)
- 1966
- Private Collection
- Francis Bacon
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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. Bacon painted portraits of ...
It was this emotional flagellation that glued Dyer permanently to Bacon’s conscience and haunted his paintings. 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).
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 ...
Private collection. 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. It was painted in the first half of 1964, within a year of Bacon ...
Feb 24, 2017 · Francis Bacon’s first portrait of George Dyer, the East End petty criminal who became the artist’s lover and muse, is to appear at auction for the first time. The 1963 triptych, once owned by ...
