ID 1045246
Lot 225 | LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 20 000
Portrait of Stephen Spender
ink on paper, with an ink drawing by the same hand on the reverse
8 3/8 x 5 ¾in. (21.2 x 14.6cm.)
Executed in 1940
Provenance
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 2003).
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.
Exhibited
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Lucian Freud: Drawings 1940, 2003, no. 109 (detail illustrated in colour, p. 161). This exhibition later travelled to London, Timothy Taylor Gallery.
| Artist: | Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Artist: | Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) |
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| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
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