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LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)

Lot 7
09.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1306113
Lot 7 | LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Estimate value
£ 10 000 000 – 15 000 000
LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Ria, Naked Portrait
oil on canvas
34 ¼ x 64 1/8in. (87 x 163cm.)
Painted in 2006-2007




Provenance

Acquavella Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008.



Literature

Lucian Freud: Recent Works, exh. cat., New York, Acquavella Galleries, 2006, no. 6 (studio view illustrated in colour, unpaged; illustrated in colour, unpaged).
W. Feaver, Lucian Freud, New York 2007, p. 482, no. 362 (with incorrect dimensions, illustrated in colour, pp. 466-467; detail illustrated in colour, p. 468).
M. Gayford, ‘Lucian Freud: marathon man’, in The Telegraph, 22 September 2007, online (studio view illustrated in colour).
Lucian Freud. L’Atelier, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2010 (studio view illustrated in colour, pp. 12-13).
D. Dawson, A Painter’s Progress, A Portrait of Lucian Freud, London 2014 (studio view illustrated in colour, pp. 122-129).
P. Hoban, Lucian Freud, Eyes Wide Open, New York 2014, p. 144.
W. Feaver, ‘I was Lucian Freud’s spare pair of eyes’, in The Observer, 8 September 2019, online (studio view illustrated in colour).
M. Holborn and D. Dawson (eds.), Lucian Freud, A Life, London 2019 (studio view illustrated in colour, pp. 232-233).
W. Feaver, The Lives of Lucian Freud, Fame 1968-2011, London 2020, pp. 488, 490, 497 and 502.
M. Gayford, Lucian Freud, London 2022, p. 616 (illustrated in colour, pp. 598-599).



Exhibited

London, Tate Modern, 2007 (on loan).
London, National Portrait Gallery, Lucian Freud, Portraits, 2012, p. 250, no. 109 (illustrated in colour, p. 184). This exhibition later travelled to Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Lucian Freud: Monumental, 2019, p. 84 (illustrated in colour, p. 85; detail illustrated in colour, pp. 86-87; studio view illustrated in colour, pp. 118-119).



Further Details

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Lucian Freud paintings under cat. 496.
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