Three Studies for George Dyer

One of three photographs of George Dyer, upon which the triptych was based

Three Studies for George Dyer
Artist	Francis Bacon
Year	1964
Dimensions	28 cm × 36 cm (11 in × 14 in)

Three Studies for George Dyer is a small-format triptych painted by Francis Bacon in 1964.

The work 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 first meeting Dyer in late 1963, and was based on photographs of Dyer taken by John Deakin. Bacon painted about 40 triptychs in this small format, with each portrait measuring 11 by 14 inches (28 cm × 36 cm). This is one of five of Dyer in the small format, the others completed in 1963, 1964 (on a pink ground), 1966 and 1969.

Unlike the four other small-format Dyer triptychs, one of which was painted on a pink ground and the others on a dark ground, this version was painted on a light yellowish ground. Bacon used heavy structural brushstrokes in a limited palette of red/orange, black, and white, with a touch of blue.

The painting was included in the Bacon retrospective held at the Grand Palais in Paris: Dyer committed suicide the evening before it opened in 1971. The triptych was held in a private collection from 1970 until it was sold at Sotheby's in London in June 2014 for £26.7m, including buyer's premium.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ "Francis Bacon triptych sells for £26.7m". BBC News. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
↑ "Bacon triptych sells for 'landmark' 26.7 million pounds in London". Reuters. Retrieved 1 July 2014.

External links

Three studies for portrait of George Dyer (on light ground), Sotheby's, 30 June 2014
Sotheby's London Hits High Notes with £93 Million Sale, artnet.com, 30 June 2014

Francis Bacon (artist)
Figures	Figure Study I (1945–56) Figure in a landscape (1945) Painting 1946 (1946) Fragment of a Crucifixion (1950) Study from the Human Body (1949) Study for Crouching Nude (1952) Dog (1952) Two Figures (1953) Three Studies from the Human Head (1953) Study for the Nurse in the film Battleship Potemkin (1957) Lying Figure (1966) Version No. 2 of Lying Figure with Hypodermic Syringe (1968) Three Studies of the Male Back (1970) Three Figures and Portrait (1975) Two Seated Figures (1979) Carcase of Meat and Bird of Prey (1980) Diptych (1982–84) Blood on the Floor (Painting, 1986) (1986)
Head series	Head I (1949) Head II (1949) Head III (1949) Head IV (1949) Head V (1949) Head VI (1949)
Popes	Study after Velázquez, 1950 Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) Pope I (1953) Pope II (1953) Pope III (1953) Pope IV (1953) Pope V (1953) Pope VI (1953) Figure with Meat (1954) Untitled (Pope) (c. 1954) Study from Innocent X (1962)
Triptychs	Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) Three Studies for a Crucifixion (1962) Three Figures in a Room (1964) Crucifixion (1965) Triptych inspired by T.S Elliot's 'Sweeney Agonistes' (1964) Three Studies for George Dyer (1967) Two Figures Lying on a bed with Attendants (1968) After Muybridge - Study of the Human Figure in Motion - Woman Emptying a Bowl of Water (1970) Triptych 1976 (1976) Second Version of Triptych 1944 (1988)
Black Triptychs	In Memory of George Dyer (1971) Triptych–August 1972 (1972) Triptych, May–June 1973 (1973)
Male portraits	Study for Three Heads (1962) Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer (1964) Double Portrait of Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach (1964) Three Studies for a Portrait of Lucian Freud (1965) Portrait of Lucian Freud (on Orange Couch) (1965) Portrait of George Dyer Talking (1966) Study for Head of George Dyer (1966) Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud (1967) Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) Three Studies for a Portrait of Peter Beard (1975) Portrait of Michel Leiris, 1976 (1976) Portrait of Michel Leiris, 1978 (1978) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1980)
Female portraits	Three Studies for a Portrait of Henrietta Moraes (1963) Study for a Portrait (Isabel Rawsthorn) (1964) Three Studies for the Head of Isabel Rawsthorn (1965) Three Studies of Muriel Belcher (1966) Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne Standing in a Street in Soho (1967) Three Studies of Henrietta Moraes laughing (1969) Female Nude Standing in a Doorway (1972) Sphinx: Portrait of Muriel Blecher (1979)
Self-portraits	Self-portrait (1973) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1973) Self-portrait (1973) Seated Figure (1974) Sleeping Figure (1974) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1974) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1976) Three Studies for a Self Portrait (1979) Study for a Self-Portrait—Triptych, 1985–86 (1985)
Summary articles	List of paintings by Francis Bacon List of large triptychs by Francis Bacon Triptychs by Francis Bacon The Black Triptychs Influences on Francis Bacon

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