Lot Essay
Freud uses watercolor here in lieu of aquatint. The plate with a full male image at the top was cut down to create a more dramatically cropped composition.
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Pluto (H. 37)
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LUCIAN FREUD
Pluto (H. 37)
etching and drypoint with watercolor, 1988, on Somerset Satin White, signed with initials in pencil, numbered 3/40 (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by James Kirkman, London, and Brooke Alexander, New York, with full margins, very pale mat staining, a small area of pale surface soiling at the upper right margin edge, otherwise in very good condition, framed
P. 12 5/8 x 23 5/8 in. (321 x 600 mm.)
S. 16 3/8 x 27 1/8 in. (416 x 689 mm.)
Pluto (H. 37)
etching and drypoint with watercolor, 1988, on Somerset Satin White, signed with initials in pencil, numbered 3/40 (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by James Kirkman, London, and Brooke Alexander, New York, with full margins, very pale mat staining, a small area of pale surface soiling at the upper right margin edge, otherwise in very good condition, framed
P. 12 5/8 x 23 5/8 in. (321 x 600 mm.)
S. 16 3/8 x 27 1/8 in. (416 x 689 mm.)