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Triptych August 1972 (centre panel) - Signed Print by Francis Bacon 1972 - MyArtBroker

Triptych August 1972 (centre panel)
Signed Print

Francis Bacon

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Lithograph, 1972
Signed Print Edition of 180
H 66cm x W 49cm

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseArtwork
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
May 2022Artcurial - FranceTriptych August 1972 (centre panel) - Signed Print
July 2016Christie's London - United KingdomTriptych August 1972 (centre panel) - Signed Print
July 1994Christie's London - United KingdomTriptych August 1972 (centre panel) - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

Created in the year following the death of George Dyer, Triptych August 1972 is an homage to Bacon's longing and regret for the loss of his lover and companion. Triptych August 1972 (centre panel) pictures Dyer and Bacon's fleshy forms melding together in this lusty yet desperate scene. Bacon met Dyer at the end of 1963 in one of Soho's pubs, and the pair's lives became instantly intertwined. Born into a family of organised crime and debauchery, Dyer was a troubled gang-associated man who, unsurprisingly, piqued the interest of Bacon's psychologically penetrative imagination. Throughout their tumultuous relationship, Bacon painted Dyer numerous times, but Triptych August 1972 (centre panel) pictures the pair in the throws of anguish after Dyer's untimely death. Just one day before Bacon's solo show at Paris' Grand Palais in October 1971, Dyer's body was discovered slumped over the toilet of his hotel suite.

At the centre of the barren composition, Dyer and Bacon's forms fuse together. The lavender pool on the ground beneath their figures appears more solidly formed than those in Triptych August 1972 (left panel) and Triptych August 1972 (right panel), potentially symbolising the solidity of their relationship in its heyday. However, the contorted shape made by their fleshy figures was inspired by a photograph of wrestlers by Eadweard Muybridge, where one of the wrestlers pins the other to the ground. Bacon's choice of this particular figurative representation is significant. Perhaps Bacon's figure attempts to pin Dyer's to the floor in a desperate attempt to save him from slinking into the black void in the background. Alternatively, their 'wrestling' figures are a fraught testament to the intense and destructive nature of the artist/muse relationship that eventually led to Dyer's demise. Much like its companion panels, Triptych August 1972 (centre panel) is thus one of Bacon's most psychologically poignant and immersive works, relaying the artist's loss, grief, and guilt during this cataclysmic year of his life.

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