Bacon’s romantic involvement with George Dyer, the focus of many of his artworks, was volatile and its eventual outcome tragic. Just a couple days before the first showing of the 1971 Francis Bacon Retrospective in Paris , Dyer died from an alcohol overdose in the bathroom of a Parisian hotel. Bacon produced portraits of Dyer with feverish regularity even after Dyer's death. Most famously, Triptych (May 1973) documents the painful events of his death.
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