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£26m Bacon painting misses record | |
(about 21 hours later) | |
A Francis Bacon painting has sold for more than £26m, just £160,000 short of the auction record for a work by a British or Irish artist. | |
Triptych 1974-77, painted in response to the suicide of Bacon's lover George Dyer in 1971, made £26,340,500 at Christie's in London. | |
But it failed to beat the £26.4m paid for Bacon's Study from Innocent X in New York last year. | |
The Dublin-born figurative painter died in 1992. | |
Tragic death | |
Dyer committed suicide on the eve of the opening of Bacon's last retrospective in Paris, in the hotel room he shared with the artist. | |
Many of Bacon's later works were preoccupied with the tragic manner of his lover's death. | |
Triptych 1974-77 - the last of Bacon's paintings created in response to Dyer's death - shows sequential images of dark, ominous umbrellas and his lover struggling on a near-deserted beach. | |
Bacon's Study Of A Nude With Figure In A Mirror, painted in 1969, is also expected to fetch more than £25m when it is sold at Sotheby's, in London, on 27 February. |
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