Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Although strongly identified as a religious altarpiece form, triptychs outside that context have been created, some of the best-known examples being works by Max Beckmann and Francis Bacon. When Bacon's 1969 triptych, Three Studies of Lucian Freud , was sold in 2013 for $142.4 million, [ 9 ] it was the highest price ever paid for an artwork at ...
This work was the first painting Bacon was happy with and was an instant critical success. The themes it explores reoccur and are re-examined in many of his later panels and triptychs. The Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992) painted 28 known large triptychs between 1944 and 1985–86. [1]
During the following three years he painted many images of Dyer, including the series of three "Black triptychs" (or "Black paintings") which have come to be seen as among his best work. They are so named because they share common black backgrounds emblematic of death or mourning. [8] A number of characteristics bind the "Black triptychs" together.
This page was last edited on 15 November 2020, at 00:19 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Oil on canvas, 198 × 147 cm. Collection of Esther Grether. Triptych, May–June 1973 is a triptych completed in 1973 by the Irish-born artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992). The oil-on-canvas was painted in memory of Bacon's lover George Dyer, who committed suicide on the eve of the artist's retrospective at Paris's Grand Palais on 24 October 1971.
Triptych–August 1972.Tate, London. Triptych–August 1972 is a large oil-on-canvas triptych by the British artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992). It was painted in memory of Bacon's lover George Dyer who committed suicide on 24 October 1971, the eve of the artist's retrospective at Paris's Grand Palais, then the highest honour Bacon had received.
It was the first of nine triptychs that the artist created. The panels, according to Beckmann, are named The Castle (left), The Homecoming (middle) and The Staircase (right). The paintings have all the same height (215.5 cm) and the middle panel, with 115 cm, is only slightly wider than the other two, which have 99.5 cm in length. [ 1 ]
The San Lorenzo Triptych is a tempera-on-panel altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini and others. Its central panel of Saint Lawrence measures 127 by 48 cm, its lunette of the Madonna and Child 59 by 170 cm and its side panels of John the Baptist and Antony of Padua 103 by 45 cm each.