Triptych, May–June 1973
Triptych, May–June 1973 is a triptych completed in 1973 by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon. The oil-on-canvas was painted in memory of Bacon’s lover George Dyer, who committed suicide on the eve of the artist’s retrospective at Paris’s Grand Palais on 24 October 1971. Bacon was haunted and preoccupied by Dyer’s loss for the remaining years of his life and...