Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
The American Table: Works from the Collection of Barbara & Daniel Fendrick, Washington D.C.
Head of a Man
Auction Closed
May 14, 09:30 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The American Table: Works from the Collection of Barbara & Daniel Fendrick, Washington D.C.
Lucian Freud
1922 - 2011
Head of a Man
signed with the artist's initials (lower right); inscribed AP V/X (lower left) (Hartley calls for 6 artist's proofs)
etching on BFK Rives wove paper
plate: 8 ⅞ by 7 ¼ in. (22.5 by 18.3 cm.)
sheet: 19 ¾ by 17 ⅜ in. (50.5 by 44.1 cm.)
Executed in 1986-87, this impression is 1 of 6 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 20, co-published by James Kirkman and Brooke Alexander.
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above in July 1989 by the present owner
Craig Hartley, The Etchings of Lucian Freud : A Catalogue Raisonné, 1946-1995, London, 1995, p. 86-87, no. 29, illustrated (another example illustrated)
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