Picture "In Memory of George Dyer" (1976)

In 1971, two days before the opening of a major Bacon exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, Bacon's partner George Dyer committed suicide. The painter dealt with his death in numerous portraits. The highly conflicted, almost self-destructive relationship between the two is reflected in Bacon's strongest works. The lithograph presented here was made after the left panel of the triptych "In Memory of George Dyer" from 1971, which is now part of the famous collection of the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel.

Coloured offset lithograph, 1976. 100 copies on wove paper, numbered and signed. Motif size 75,5 x 55 cm. Sheet size 85 x 61 cm. Size in frame 92 x 68 cm as shown.

About Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was a British painter born in Ireland. He is among the most significant representational painters of the 20th century. A preferred theme in his work is the depiction of the deformed human body in tightly constructed spaces.

Francis Bacon's extensive oeuvre is distributed among the collections of the world's major museums. As a British artist, his works are naturally found in the collections of the Tate Modern and Tate Britain. In the USA, they are housed, for example, at the MoMA and Guggenheim Museum, while on the European continent, they can be seen in the Städel Museum Frankfurt, Centre Pompidou Paris and the Kunsthaus Zürich, among others.

The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.

Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.

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