Three Studies for George Dyer [SEP] creator
Three Studies for George Dyer
Three Studies for George Dyer is a small-format triptych painted by Francis Bacon in 1964. 
The work comprises three portraits of Bacon's lover George Dyer: from left to right, a three-quarter view, a right profile, and a face-on view. It was painted in the first half of 1964, within a year of Bacon first meeting Dyer in late 1963, and was based on photographs of Dyer taken by John Deakin. Bacon painted about 40 triptychs in this
Study for Head of Lucian Freud" (Oil on canvas, 36 cm × 30.5 cm, Private collection, long term loan to Tate Gallery, London)
- "Triptych inspired by T.S Elliot's Poem Sweeney Agonistes" (Oil and pastel on canvas, 198 x 147.5cm (78.25 x 57.25 in), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.) (large triptych)
- "Three Studies for George Dyer" (1967)
- "Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud"