Francis Bacon - Portrait of George Dyer Crouching, Original lithograph, 1966
Size: 38.1 × 28 cm
Proof from the very 1st limited edition printed by Arte for Dlm in only 1500 proofs.
In excellent condition.
Lithograph based after the 1966 painting of the same title. Original 1960s litho from the portfolio: Derriere Le Miroir.
Medium: Lithograph in colors on wove paper, published by Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1966. with certificate of authenticity (issued by gallery).
*In 1963 a new muse entered Bacon’s life and art. George Dyer, a petty criminal from the East End of London became his partner and the subject of many paintings, such as Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer, 1963. Portraits became the main subject of the decade. Bacon claimed that he preferred to paint people that he knew well and many of his sitters, such as Henrietta Moraes, Isabel Rawsthorne, Lucian Freud and George Dyer, were close friends or lovers.
