{"product_id":"17302-bacon-francis-triptych-august-1972-signed-tate-gallery-invitation","title":"Bacon, Francis. (1909 - 1992) Triptych August 1972 - SIGNED Tate Gallery Invitation","description":"1985 exhibition invitation illustrated with a detail from his painting \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eTriptych August 1972\u003c\/i\u003e, boldly signed \"Francis Bacon\" in black ink to the blank margin beneath the image.   3pp. Small 4to. Some very light surface wear to the image, else fine. A melancholy and striking souvenir. \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eThe invitation is for the Press View of a 1985 exhibition at the Tate Gallery, held on May 21, 1985.  The card's cover illustrates a portrait of George Dyer (1934 - 1971), Bacon's deceased lover, from his \u003ci style=\"\"\u003eTriptych August 1972.  \u003c\/i\u003eA September 2016 Tate Gallery label notes, \"This work is generally considered one in a series of \u003ci\u003eBlack Triptychs\u003c\/i\u003e which followed the suicide of Bacon's lover, George Dyer.  Dyer appears on the left and Bacon is on the right.  The central group is derived from a photograph of wrestlers by Edward Muybridge, but also suggests a more sexual encounter.  The seated figures and their coupling are set against black voids and the central flurry has been seen as a 'life-and-death struggle.'  The artists's biographer wrote: \"What death has not already consumed seeps incontinently out of the figures as their shadows.'\"\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093645676703,"sku":"17302","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Bacon_Francis_17302_01.jpg?v=1722189410","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/17302-bacon-francis-triptych-august-1972-signed-tate-gallery-invitation","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}