LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)

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ID 1472424
Los 18 | LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
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£ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Sleeping Head
oil on canvas
26 x 20in. (66 x 51cm.)
Painted in 1961-1971




Provenance

Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London. 
Sheridan Frederick Terence Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava Collection, London. 
Anon. sale, Christie’s London, 4 June 1971, lot 89. 
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

M. Peppiatt (ed.), 'Modern Art in Britain' in Cambridge Opinion 37, Cambridge, 1964 (illustrated, p. 47).
L. Gowing, Lucian Freud, London 1982, pp. 150-151, no. 97 (dated ‘1962’; illustrated, p. 123). 
M. Ruel, 'Lucian Freud and the Naked Self' in The Cambridge Journal of Anthrapology, Vol. 18, No. 3, Cambridge 1995, p. 20.
B. Bernard and D. Birdsall (eds.), Lucian Freud, London 1996, p. 353, no. 100 (dated ‘1962’; illustrated in colour, p. 130). 
L'école de Londres: de Bacon à Bevan, exh. cat., Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, 1998, p. 75 (dated ‘1962’). 
Lucian Freud: Naked Portraits: Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, exh. cat., Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, 2001, p. 81, no. 83 (dated ‘1962’; illustrated, p. 105). 
Lucian Freud: L’Atelier, exh. cat., Paris, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 2010, p. 56 (titled 'Sleepping [sic] Head' and dated ‘1962’).  
M. Gayford, Lucian Freud, vol. 1, London 2018, pp. 226 and 610 (dated ‘1962’; illustrated in colour, p. 233). 
W. Feaver, The Lives of Lucian Freud, Youth 1922-1968, London 2019, pp. 545, 546, 570 and 677 (dated ‘1962’). 
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 1, London 2025, pp. 78 and 219, no. 145. 
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 2, London 2025, pp. 288 and 310, no. 145 (illustrated in colour, p. 289).



Exhibited

London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, Lucian Freud: Recent Work, 1963, p. 4, no. 13 (dated ‘1962’; illustrated, p. 13). 
London, Hayward Gallery, Lucian Freud, 1974, no. 85 (dated ‘1962’; illustrated, p. 49). This exhibition later travelled to Bristol, Bristol City Art Gallery; Birmingham, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery and Leeds, Leeds City Museum and Art Gallery. 
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Lucian Freud Paintings, 1987-1988, pp. 18, 19 and 131, no. 25 (dated ‘1962’; illustrated in colour, p. 51). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne; London, Hayward Gallery; Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie and Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Rome, Palazzo Ruspoli, Lucian Freud: Paintings and Works on Paper 1940-1991, 1991-1992, p. 108, no. 16 (dated ‘1962’; illustrated in colour, p. 42). This exhibition later travelled to Milan, Castello Sforzesco and Liverpool, Tate Gallery.
London, Gagosian, Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews, 2022-2023, p. 120 (illustrated in colour, p. 81).
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