Caro George

In October 1971, an art exhibition held in Paris crowns Francis Bacon as one of the greatest painters of his time. The day just before the exhibition, however, George Dyer – lover and art-model of the Irish artist – kills himself in the hotel room that they were staying in. Looking at George’s portraits, Bacon re-lives in his mind the intense relationship that he had with his lover, in a mix of artistic triumph and failure that inevitably become the main theme of his artwork.