• Artist: Elaine de Kooning
• Material: Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 
• Dimensions: 78 × 50 in
• Classification: painting

Bacchus #3 is a part of a seven-year series of paintings and watercolors that Elaine de Kooning completed from 1976 to 1983. To render that energy, de Kooning relied on her style of Abstract Expressionism. She used large contour lines and patches of color to reference the sculpture’s green patina, and the figure group in the center is made more pregnable by the bold strokes that surround them, swaths of green and blue marks referring to trees. A 19th-century statue of Bacchus inspired De Kooning in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris she was captivated by, especially the way that he, a drunken god, was portrayed as twisting and dynamic, surrounded by intoxicated attendants as well.