LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)

Lot 17
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ID 990325
Lot 17 | LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
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£ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000
LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)

A Man (Self-portrait)

ink and coloured pencil on paper

8 1/2 x 5 3/4in. (21.5 x 14.6cm.)

Executed in 1944





Provenance

E.L.T. Mesens Collection, London (acquired directly from the artist).

Douglas Newton Collection, New York (acquired from the above circa 1952-1953).

Private Collection, Australia (acquired from the above in 2001).

Private Collection, USA.

Acquired from the above by the present owner.



Exhibited

New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Lucian Freud: Early Works, 1993-1994, p. 51 (titled 'A Man').

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits, 2020, fig. 40 (illustrated, p. 138).



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