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Lucian Freud (b. 1922)
- Benefits Supervisor Sleeping

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Lucian Freud (b. 1922)
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • $33,641,000
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    $25,000,000 - $35,000,000

Sale Information

Sale 1997
Post War And Contemporary Art Evening Sale
13 May 2008
New York, Rockefeller Plaza




Lot Description

Lucian Freud (b. 1922)
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
oil on canvas
59 5/8 x 86¼ in. (151.3 x 219 cm.)
Painted in 1995.

Saleroom Notice

Please note this work has been requested for the forthcoming exhibition Lucian Freud Portraits that will take place at the National Portrait Gallery in London from February-May 2012.

Provenance

Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York
Private collection, Europe

Literature

B. Bernard and D. Birdsall, Lucian Freud, London, 1996, pp. 330-331, no. 281 (illustrated in color).
Lucian Freud Naked Portraits, exh. cat., Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, 2001, p. 121, fig. 105 (illustrated).
W. Feaver, Lucian Freud, New York, 2007, pp. 346-347, no. 227 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited

Saint-Paul, Fondation Maeght, Bacon-Freud, July-October 1995, p. 193, no. 73 (illustrated in color).
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Lucian Freud, October-November 1996.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century, October 1999-April 2000, p. 56, no. 24 (illustrated in color).
Venice, Museo Correr, Lucian Freud, July-October 2005, p. 147, no. 62 (illustrated in color).

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