The diary entry recording Dyer’s death. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 7,000
The Crockford’s 1971 diary.
Francis Bacon’s diary from 1971, recording the death of his lover George Dyer, comes up at auction in Co. Meath on March 24. It is among the lots at an auction of 450 lots by Matthews of Oldcastle at Headort House, Kells. Dyer, with whom Bacon had a stormy relationship, committed suicide in Paris just before Bacon’s retrospective at the Grand Palais. Bacon continued to paint portraits of Dyer after his death. The diary is estimated at 2,500-3,500.