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Sep 9, 2023 · Though the official report claimed the death was accidental, Bacon later admitted that Dyer had died by suicide. Bacon's response to the death of his lover, friend, and muse is astonishing.
Sep 28, 2019 · In the right-hand panel of In Memory of George Dyer, Bacon’s dead lover is framed in profile. Dyer appears cleaved in two at the chest. His mutilated trunk falls forward from the portrait and...
- Lara Marlowe
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 Dyer obsessively, both during his life and after Dyer’s death.
In the end, Dyer was a man consumed by his effigies: the social relevance, intellectual significance and financial comfort they afforded him completely blotted out any trace of his previous life. As a result, his eventual fall from grace was swift, unforgiving, and fatal.
Apr 7, 2021 · The same day that Francis Bacon’s landmark retrospective opened at the Grand Palais in Paris, in 1971, his longtime boyfriend and muse George Dyer died on the toilet in their hotel. It was...
Jun 21, 2019 · “Three Studies of Figures on Beds” (1972) commemorates Bacon’s lover George Dyer, who committed suicide hours before the opening of the Grand Palais exhibition.
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Feb 25, 2024 · THE last portrait painted by Francis Bacon of his lover George Dyer will go under the hammer next month. Painted in 1970, Study of George Dwyer was completed a year before Dyer’s death. With an estimated price tag of £5-7million, it will go up for sale for the first time in more than 50 years
