[1] It is the second most expensive Bacon ever sold, after Three Studies of Lucian Freud, being auctioned for US$86 million in 2008.

Bacon used his usual technique, starting on the left panel and working across.

The piece draws on classical Greek iconography and mythology, and makes reference to Prometheus, as several interpretations claim.

[4] Bacon's friend, Peter Beard, was used as a model for one of the figures.

[2] Prior to Abramovich, it was owned in a private European collection since its purchase from the Marlborough Gallery, London in 1977.