ID 717739
Lot 36 | LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Estimate value
£ 10 000 000 – 15 000 000
Girl with Closed Eyes
oil on canvas
18 1⁄4 x 23 3⁄4in. (46.3 x 60.4cm.)
Painted in 1986-1987
Provenance
James Kirkman, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1987.
Literature
B. Bernard and D. Birdsall (eds.), Lucian Freud, London 1996, p. 356, no. 202 (illustrated in colour, p. 227).
W. Feaver, Lucian Freud, New York 2007, p. 477, no. 218 (illustrated in colour, p. 237).
W. Feaver, The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame 1968-2011, London 2020, p. 187.
Exhibited
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Lucian Freud Paintings, 1987-88, p. 133, no. 98 (illustrated in colour, p. 127). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée national d'art moderne; London, Hayward Gallery and Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie.
Venice, Museo Correr, Lucian Freud, 2005, pp. 124 and 198, no. 45 (illustrated in colour, p. 125).
Salzburg, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, A Guest of Honour, From Francis Bacon to Peter Doig, 2008, p. 65 (illustrated in colour, p. 25).
Cardiff, National Museum Cardiff, Bacon to Doig: Modern Masterpieces from a Private Collection, 2017-2018, p. 44 (illustrated in colour, p. 45).
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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Artist: | Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Post War Art |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
Artist: | Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Post War Art |
Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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