LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)

Lot 36
01.03.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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ID 717739
Lot 36 | LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
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£ 10 000 000 – 15 000 000
LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)

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).





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