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The American Table: Works from the Collection of Barbara & Daniel Fendrick, Washington D.C.

Lucian Freud

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)