LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
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ID 1472417
Lot 17 | LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Estimate value
8000000GBP £ 8 000 000 – 12 000 000
Self-portrait Fragment
oil on canvas
24 x 24in. (61 x 61cm.)
Painted circa 1956
Provenance
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1968.
Literature
N. Cullinan, 'Finishing Well: Lucian Freud' in Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, exh. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, p. 334 (titled ‘Self-Portrait’; illustrated in colour, p. 107).
M. Gayford, Lucian Freud, vol. 1, London 2018, p. 610 (illustrated in colour, p. 210).
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 1, London 2025, pp. 16, 77, 88 and 218, no. 8 (illustrated in colour, p. 17).
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 2, London 2025, p. 244, no. 121 (illustrated in colour, p. 245).
Exhibited
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Lucian Freud: Recent Work, 1968, p. 3, no. 1.
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Lucian Freud, 2013-2014, p. 158, no. 9 (titled ‘Self-Portrait’; illustrated in colour, p. 159).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits, 2019-2020, pp. 88 and 149, no. 35 (titled ‘Self-portrait’; detail illustrated in colour, p. 50; illustrated in colour, p. 89). This exhibition later travelled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
London, The National Gallery, Lucian Freud: New Perspectives, 2022-2023, p. 210, no. 24 (detail illustrated in colour on the inside front cover; illustrated in colour, p. 88). This exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Artist: | Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) |
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Art style: | Contemporary art |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Artist: | Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) |
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Art style: | Contemporary art |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
Address of auction |
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