LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black ink on buff paper

Measurements:

5.00 in. (12.70 cm.) (height) by 6.69 in. (17.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed 'End piece 'Five Peculiar Gulls' s/s END PIECE (p) end' (lower edge)

Literature:

Exhibition catalogue, Early Works by Lucian Freud, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1997, p. 15, illustrated. R. Calvocoressi and S. Smee, Lucian Freud on Paper, London, 2008, p. 23, illustrated.

Provenance:

with Karsten Schubert, London. with Archeus Fine Art, London. with Richard Salmon, London. with Austin Desmond, London.