Francis Bacon

Three Studies for a Self-Portrait is an oil-on-canvas triptych painting by the Irish-born English artist Francis Bacon. Two of the paintings are signed and dated 1979, and the third is signed and dated 1979–1980. The triptych is usually viewed by art historians as penetrating self-examinations in the aftermath of the suicide of his lover George Dyer; one of a series of inward-looking self-portraits completed during the 1970s. Bacon was seventy at the time, but depicts himself as much younger.