LUCIAN FREUD, O.M., C.H. (1922-2011)

Lot 161
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ID 831255
Lot 161 | LUCIAN FREUD, O.M., C.H. (1922-2011)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
LUCIAN FREUD, O.M., C.H. (1922-2011)

Fragment from 'The Freud-Schuster Book'

signed with initials 'LF' (lower left)

ink and crayon on tracing paper

15 x 10 in. (38.4 x 25.4 cm.)

Executed in 1941.





Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by a private collector, Japan, 1979.

Anonymous sale; Mainichi Auction, Tokyo, 30 November 2019, lot 204, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

L. Gowing, Lucian Freud, London, 1984, pp. 34, 224, no. 16, illustrated.

B. Bernard and D. Birdsall (eds.), Lucian Freud, London, 1996, pp. 48, 351, no. 22, illustrated.

R. Lauter (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Lucian Freud: Naked Portraits: Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, 2001, p. 48, no. 26, illustrated, dated '1942'.

M. Holborn (ed.), Lucian Freud: On Paper, London, 2008, pp. 51, 159, no. 17, illustated.



Exhibited

Japan, Nishimura Gallery, Lucian Freud: Paintings and Drawings, May - June 1979, no. 14, as 'Sheet of Studies'.



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