Triptych 1974-77

Posted by fotoviva on February 02, 2008 in Photography News tagged with ,

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.

triptych photo on canvas

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