The portrait is one of the few to show Dyer as people other than Bacon might have seen him in his prime charming, engaging and physically attractive.
He is shown in a frenetic manner, full of life, confidence and panache, with his head turning from side to side as he addresses company. The painting is the first to show his lover George Dyer clothed, wearing a jacket, shirt and tie. Bacon was a ruthless self critic, and often abandoned paintings mid-work, or slashed finished canvases something he often later regretted.
Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud was a 1967 oil on canvasįrancis Bacon, which he destroyed before it left his studio, though it was photographed and is highly regarded by art critics.
Portrait of George Dyer and Lucian Freud, 1967.
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