
Frida and Diego sign the register in San Francisco, December 8, 1940.
October 24, 1934
Frida writes to her pal and confidante, Dr. Eloesser:
I have suffered so much in three months that it is going to be difficult for me to feel completely well soon but I have done everything I can to forget what happened between Diego and me [referring to his affair with her sister Cristina] and to live again as before”.

Francis Bacon, Triptych, May – June 1973, 1973
October 24, 1971
George Dyer, Francis Bacon’s longtime love, commits suicide, just before the opening of Bacon’s retrospective at Paris’ Grand Palais. His death, by a deliberate overdose of pills in their hotel room, inspires Bacon to paint Triptych, May–June 1973, a portrait of Dyer’s last moments.