Francis Bacon’s ill‐fated relationship with his lover George Dyer, who died of a drug overdose in 1971, materialised in a series of powerfully imaginative portraits. In the following decades Bacon painted his likeness with a fervour that bordered on obsession, culminating in the famed painting ‘Portrait of George Dyer Riding a Bicycle’, produced in 1996 and turned into a series of giclée prints by HENI in 2015. This artwork confronts, exorcises and commemorates Dyer’s death, with some critics considering it the pinnacle of Bacon’s career...read more