LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

88.12 in. (223.82 cm.) (height) by 54.50 in. (138.43 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, The Wallace Collection and New York, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Lucian Freud: Recent Paintings and Etchings, March-May 2004, pp. 6 and 43-44, no. 21 (earlier state illustrated in color). Venice, Museo Correr, Lucian Freud, June-October 2005, pp. 182-183 and 199, no. 84 (illustrated in color). London, National Portrait Gallery and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Lucian Freud: Portraits, February-October 2012, pp. 15, 181, 238 and 239, no. 104 (illustrated in color). Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, Lucian Freud: Paintings and Prints, June-September 2013

Literature:

M. Kimmelman, "Lucian Freud, From the Studio to the Gallery," The New York Times, 4 May 2004. S. Smee, Lucian Freud, 1996-2005, New York, 2005, p. 13, no. 93 (illustrated in color). B. Bernard and D. Dawson, Freud at Work, New York, 2006, pp. 186-187 (illustrated in color). Lucian Freud: The Studio, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2010, pp. 5-6 (studio view illustrated in color). Lucian Freud, exh. cat., Vienna, Kunsthisorisches Museum, 2013, pp. 60 and 253-254, fig. 2 (illustrated in color). S. Eyman, "A Big deal at the Norton," Palm Beach Daily, 12 May 2013, pp. F1 and F4 (illustrated in color). D. Dawson, A Painter's Progress: a Portrait of Lucian Freud, New York, 2014, pp. 68-71 (studio view illustrated in color)

Provenance:

Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004