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Triptych, 1976
Triptych, 1976 is a large triptych painted by the British artist Francis Bacon in 1976. It comprises three oil and pastel paintings on canvas. It is the second most expensive Bacon ever sold, after "Three Studies of Lucian Freud", being auctioned for US$86 million in 2008.
Style.
The 1976 triptych is a large three panel painting (each panel measuring 78 x 58 in, 198 x 147.5 cm), with dense colors and abstract shapes. Bacon used his usual technique
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In May 2012, the Prado Museum in Madrid acquired a panel, presumably the central part of a triptych, depicting "Christ in the Garden of Olives with Saint Agnes and Louis I d’Orleans as a Donor". It is the only known contemporary depiction of Louis I.
An "Angel of the Annunciation" in the Museum of Laon, the right wing of a triptych, which is attributed to the Master of the Retable of Pierre de Wissant, may be