LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)

Lot 13
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Lot 13 | LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
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LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)

Raid on a Village

oil, ink and graphite on board

16 x 12in. (40.6 x 30.5cm.)

Executed circa 1940





Provenance

Lucy Harwood, London (acquired directly from the artist in 1942).

Her sale, Sotheby’s London, 30 March 1983, lot 231.

Private Collection, UK.

Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 2000.



Literature

M. Gayford, Lucian Freud, London 2018, pp. 44 and 322 (illustrated in colour, p. 54; titled ‘Air Battle Over a Village’ and dated ‘circa 1939’).

M. Gayford, Lucian Freud, London 2022, pp. 44 and 607 (illustrated in colour, p. 54; titled ‘Air Battle Over a Village’ and dated ‘circa 1939’).

D. Dawson and M. Gayford, Love Lucian. The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954, London 2022 (illustrated in colour, p. 60; titled ‘Air Battle Over a Village’ and dated '1939').



Exhibited

London, The Leicester Galleries, New Year Exhibition. Modern French Pictures and Contemporary English Art, 1942, p. 8, no. 86.

Benton End, The Ixion Society, details untraced (titled 'Town & Skyscape' and dated '1941').
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