Francis Bacon was well known to Paris. He kept a studio on the Rue de Birague from the mid-1970s, and spent stretches of time at the Hôtel La Louisiane, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. In 1971, he was the subject of a landmark retrospective at the Grand Palais; two days before the opening, at the Hôtel des Saints Pères, his lover George Dyer committed suicide. Bacon’s 1984 show at Galerie Maeght-Lelong drew such crowds that the police had to close the street. Gagosian is now bringing three of the artist’s late paintings—Study from the Human Body–Figure in Movement (1982), Study from the Human Body (1986), and Man at a Washbasin (1989–90)—to its gallery on Rue de Castiglione, where they will be together for the first time. The show is timed to the 30th anniversary of Bacon’s Centre Pompidou retrospective. —Elena Clavarino