Triptych: 3 Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944)

From Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation: "It is the separation of bodies in universal light & universal color, which becomes the common fact of Figures, their rhythmic being, the second "matter of fact" or the union that separates. A joining-together separates the Figures & separates the colors--such is light. The Figure-beings separate while falling into white light. Everything becomes aerial in the triptychs of light; the separation itself is in the air. Time is no longer in the chromatism of bodies, it has become a monochromatic eternity. An immense space-time unites all things...three canvases remain separated, but they are no longer isolated; & the frame or borders of a painting no longer refer to the limitative unity of each, but the distributive unity of the three" (Deleuze 70).