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[Wikipedia] May 13: Triptych, May–June 1973

Triptych, May–June 1973 is a triptych completed in 1973 by the
Irish-born artist Francis Bacon. The oil-on-canvas work was painted in
memory of Bacon's lover George Dyer, who committed suicide on the eve
of the artist's retrospective at Paris's Grand Palais in October 1971.
The triptych is a portrait of the moments before Dyer's death. Bacon
was preoccupied by Dyer's suicide in his last twenty years, during
which time he painted a number of similarly themed works. He admitted
to friends that he never fully recovered from the event, and described
painting the triptych as an exorcism of his feelings of loss and guilt.
The work is stylistically more static and monumental than Bacon's
earlier triptychs. It has been described as one of his "supreme
achievements", and is generally viewed as his most intense and tragic
canvas. Of the three "Black Triptychs" that Bacon created to confront
Dyer's death, Triptych, May–June 1973 is generally regarded as the most
accomplished. In 2006, The Daily Telegraph's art critic Sarah Crompton
wrote that "emotion seeps into each panel of this giant canvas…the
sheer power and control of Bacon's brushwork take the breath away". In
1989, the work sold at Sotheby's for US$6,270,000, the highest price
then paid for a Bacon work.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1619:

Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was executed in The Hague
after having been accused of treason.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_van_Oldenbarnevelt>

1846:

The United States declared war on Mexico after a series of disputes in
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-American_War>

1888:

Isabel the Redeemer , heiress of Brazil, signed the Lei Áurea into law,
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel%2C_Princess_Imperial_of_Brazil>

1917:

Our Lady of Fatima: Ten-year-old Lúcia Santos and her siblings
Francisco and Jacinta Marto reportedly began experiencing a Marian
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Fatima>

1958:

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

augur (v):
To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/augur>

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive,
attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world,
burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.
--Roger Zelazny
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Zelazny>


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