Triptych Inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem "Sweeney Agonistes"  

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Triptych Inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem "Sweeney Agonistes" is a painting by Francis Bacon.

Bacon shows a couple erotically entwined in the right-hand panel, while a clothed male figure stands looking at them. The left-hand panel shows another couple, in full view, lying in Post-coital tristesse. Here Bacon is looking at the notion of voyeurism being an ideal prelude to participation; a notion held by his former lover Peter Lacy. The idea is revisited in both versions of Triptych - Studies from the Human Body (1970), and is informed by Henri Matisse's Red Studio of 1911.


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