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Portrait of Bacon's grief expected to sell for Pounds 26m
2008
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Triptych 1974-77 is regarded as a seminal artwork showing his lover writhing on a near deserted beach overlooked by the spectre of two terrifying monochrome Orwellian witnesses, and became the centrepiece of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [Francis Bacon] painted it for the show as a tribute to [George Dyer]. Pilar Ordovas, head of post-war and contemporary art at Christie's, said it was one of the finest and most mysterious Bacon paintings from the 1970s, produced when the artist was at the height of his powers. \"The other three have very sombre black backgrounds and while this is very tortured and incredibly strong, there is also some sort of hope, with the sea and the horizon in the background,\" she added.
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