£25m estimate for Bacon's tribute to suicide lover

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Triptych 1974-1977 is described as the most important work by Bacon to come to auction. He produced some of his most extraordinary work after the death of George Dyer, an alcoholic and criminal who killed himself in the couple's Paris hotel room in 1971 on the eve of a major exhibition. It is described as a "great, strangely open Baconian landscape" depicting dark, ominous umbrellas and Dyer writhing and struggling on a near deserted beach.

A private European collector is selling the painting amid rising prices for the artist who died aged 82 in 1992. A record $52.68 million (£26.5 million) was set for his Study From Innocent X in New York last May.

Pilar Ordovas, head of post-war and contemporary art for Christie's, said it was a "privilege and honour" to be able to present "such a monumental work" for sale in London.

Ms Ordovas said: "It was immediately recognised as both a major landmark and also perhaps a turning point in Bacon's career."