Francis Bacon by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1971 © Henri Cartier-Bresson – Magnum Photos
Francis Bacon purportedly met George Dyer in 1964 when he caught his soon-to-be muse breaking into his home. Bacon’s twisted portraits of Dyer — many of them large, abstract, multi-paneled paintings — are considered by critics to be the artist’s most inspired works. The alcoholic, chain-smoking Dyer, who had no profession other than hanger-on, eventually wore out his welcome with Bacon’s friends and finally Bacon himself — but he died with a vengeance, committing suicide on the eve of the artist’s Paris retrospective in 1971. Wiki
David Bailey, Francis Bacon, London Studio, 1983.
Francis Bacon, interview by Melvyn Bragg at his South Kensington studio for London Weekend Television, The South Bank Show, 1985.
