The word 'triptych' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a set of three artworks (usually paintings or photographs) that are arranged side by side to make a single composition. For example, you could say: "The gallery featured a stunning triptych of abstract paintings by the artist."
Artangel's Have Your Circumstances Changed? is a triptych of duets between an elderly man and a boy that takes place in the windows of a former furniture shop in Archway, north London.
The unnamed caller who phoned Christie's New York last night and set out to buy the Francis Bacon triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud, a portrait of his old friend painted in 1969, almost certainly wanted to spend it in a globally splashy kind of way.
And it is appropriate that each part of our 3 May triptych is framed by the NHS, the setting for so many domestic arrivals and departures, and the background to our family life.
The audience will watch the triptych of 15-minute performances wearing noise-cancelling headphones.
The Detroit Series Part 3, Netil House, E8, tonight only The final instalment of Dollop's Detroit techno triptych, with Derrick "Strings Of Life" May supported by Waifs & Strays, Jon Rust and Optimo's JD Twitch.
Meanwhile New York will be trying to complete their ongoing rehabilitation from their week one disaster in Vancouver, and also anxiously awaiting the next part of Thierry Henry's promised celebration film triptych inspired by the Dogme movement and America's Most Extravagant Home Videos (Fox).
His triptych of the dead Christ?
Having lived through the horrors of Hitler's Germany the left and right panels of the triptych show figures being tortured and the traumas of exile, his face in the photograph is tight-mouthed, like an Easter-island sculpture, facing the world and waiting for the challenges to come.
Extraordinary pieces in mixed media include the towering figure of Dame Alice Owen in marble, alabaster, bronze, paint and gilding; a fabulous unfurling bronze triptych by Mary Seton Watts of "Death Crowning Innocence"; and the show's crowning glory, an immense game of chess between Queen Elizabeth I and Philip II of Spain by William Reynolds-Stephens.
Take for example the giant triptych that opens the show.
She was born in 1916, a year after Woodrow Wilson launched the American invasion of Haiti that was to last 19 years damaging a nation proud of being the first black republic in the Western hemisphere and the only one that could boast a successful slave revolt.The occupation, and the years immediately following it, form the backdrop to the triptych.
