The gravest portrait of all is the Triptych May-June, 1973 where we see Bacon’s lover, George Dyer, through a hotel bathroom door. He’s enveloped in blackness, lurching towards death.

The very last work in the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition of Francis Bacon’s ... of his lover George Dyer, in the bathroom of a Paris hotel in 1971. The triptych, which depicts ...

There’s a limit to how much you can say about Francis Bacon ... It starts with a pope and ends with a violent triptych of his lover George Dyer, and in between it journeys from friends to ...

In our age of digitally retouched selfies, Francis Bacon’s portraits come ... The gravest portrait of all is the Triptych May-June, 1973 where we see Bacon’s lover, George Dyer, through a hotel ...