| To complement the Adelaide
Festival production of Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon, the
Art Gallery of South Australia is exhibiting the great Bacon work Triptych (1970) on
loan from the National Gallery of Australia. This
triptych features Bacon's partner and model George Dyer, and is the only Bacon triptych in
an Australian public collection. Bacon is thought to have painted 33 large triptychs in
his life, of which 28 are known to survive intact.
"Triptychs" said Bacon in 1979, "are the
thing I like doing most, and I think this may be related to the thought I've sometimes had
of making a film. I like the juxtaposition of the images separated on three different
canvasses. So far as my work has any quality, I often feel perhaps it is the triptychs
that have the most quality".
The Francis Bacon Triptych is on display in Gallery 16.
Free admission. |