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Sep 19, 2024 · The turbulent relationship between Francis Bacon and George Dyer profoundly influenced Bacon’s life and work. Their intense, volatile relationship, marked by passion, emotional turmoil, and tragedy, became a central theme within Bacon’s art.
Sep 28, 2019 · Bacon’s tender and brutal relationship with Dyer lasted eight years, until Dyer died from an overdose of alcohol and barbituates in their Paris hotel room, two days before Bacon’s ...
- Lara Marlowe
Two days before the opening of the Francis Bacon Retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1971, Dyer was found dead from a drink and drugs overdose in the bathroom of the Hotel des Saint-Pères in Paris. Bacon painted portraits of Dyer obsessively, both during his life and after Dyer’s death.
Aug 3, 2023 · According to the myth, in 1964 a few days before an exhibit opening, George Dyer broke into Francis Bacon’s studio to burgle. The artist caught him in the act and said “Take off your clothes and get into bed with me.”
Bacon was to be honoured with a major retrospective at the Paris Grand Palais in the autumn and, as usual, Dyer insisted that he be invited and attend the opening. Bacon almost completely ignored his companion once they arrived in Paris and occupied himself with arrangements and the press.
His dependency on Bacon continued from the late 1960s until 1971, when feeling pity, Bacon invited his former lover to attend his retrospective in Paris. Though dry at the time, Dyer was overwhelmed by the occasion and took refuge in quantities of drink and pills with which his body was no longer able to cope.
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Sep 9, 2023 · Francis Bacon was obviously in a state of shock after the discovery of George Dyer's body in his Paris hotel room, and the image of the horrible scene he encountered that day certainly remained in his mind's eye and went on to dominate his work in the years that followed.
