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FRANCIS BACON Triptych.
Three color aquatints with etching on Guarro paper, triptych, 1981. Each 385x295 mm; 15 1/4x11 3/4 inches, full margins. Each signed and numbered 6/99 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona. Superb, richly-inked impressions with strong colors.
Triptych is based on the same-titled, three-part work painted by Bacon (1909-1992) from 1974 to 1977. This mysterious work, one of the last in a series of triptychs that Bacon painted following the suicide of his long-time companion, George Dyer, in 1971 (Dyer 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), is believed to represent Dyer struggling on a beach and in an interior. Sabatier 4.
