Three Studies for a Portrait of Muriel Belcher

Three Studies for a portrait of Muriel Belcher is an oil-on-canvas triptych painting by the Irish born English artist Francis Bacon, completed in 1966.

[2] The two became friends soon after she opened the club in 1948, and Bacon helped her cultivate its reputation as a seedy but convivial meeting place for artists, writers, musicians, homosexuals and bohemians.

[3] At its height, regular patrons included Lucian Freud, Jeffrey Bernard, John Deakin and Henrietta Moraes.

[1] Having been exhibited at Tate, London, and Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris,[5] the triptych is currently was as of 2022 in a private collection.

[4] They cultivated an at times intimidating atmosphere,[1] and she became the subject of several of his paintings, including Seated Woman (Portrait of Muriel Belcher), which in sold 2007 for €13.7 million.