BY HOLLAND & SON, CIRCA 1870

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A VICTORIAN SATIN-BIRCH EASY OR NURSING CHAIR
BY HOLLAND & SON, CIRCA 1870
With button-down back and padded seat on turned tapered legs and castors, stamped 'Holland & Sons' and 'HL' (2)

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Lot Essay

This chair was originally one of a pair. The other was sold by Christopher Howe to the artist Lucian Freud for £500 in 1987. Freud's chair subsequently featured in the celebrated portrait of 'Leigh Bowery (Seated)', executed by Freud in 1990. Bowery (1961-1994) was a man of gargantuan scale physically and culturally, a transvestite performance artist, fetishist designer, leader of the band Minty and theatrical giver of birth.

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