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FRANCIS BACON Triptych.
Offest color lithograph on Arches, 1976. 485x365 mm; 19 1/8x14 3/8 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 100. Inscribed "essai" in pencil, lower margin (the original felt-tip pen and ink signature faded away, redrawn in pencil by another hand). Published by the Musée Cantini, Marseille.
After the central panel of the triptych Triptych, 1971, painted in memory of George Dyer, the artist's long-time companion who killed himself in the Paris hotel room where he and Bacon were staying on the eve of the opening of a landmark retrospective of Bacon's work at the Grand Palais. Sabatier 33.
