Triptych 1974-77

francis bacon triptych

A Francis Bacon triptych painting has sold for more than £26m, just £160,000 short of breaking the artist’s auction record. Entitled ‘Triptych 1974-77′ and painted in response to the suicide of Bacon’s lover George Dyer, it made a whopping £26,340,500 at Christie’s Auction House in London.

It set a European record for a post-war British or Irish artist, but failed to beat the £26.4m paid for Bacon’s Study from Innocent X in New York last year. Francis was a Dublin-born figurative painter who died in 1992.

Triptych 1974-77 was the last of Bacon’s paintings created in response to his gay lover’s death and shows sequential images of dark, ominous umbrellas and his lover struggling on a near-deserted beach.

The amount of money some art goes for is criminal really – I mean imagine what good you could do in the world and help charities, rather than having a £26m picture hanging on your wall! Kinda selfish if you ask me. Now if you are in the market for some exquisite triptych art we have a much better range – at more manageble prices at the Fotoviva Art Store, as most of our images can be purchased in 3 section triptych canvases. We also offer bespoke sizes to suit your lounge walls. See the Triptych Canvas page for more information on our split panel canvas prints.