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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Self-portrait Fragment
Details
LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Self-portrait Fragment
oil on canvas
24 x 24in. (61 x 61cm.)
Painted circa 1956
Self-portrait Fragment
oil on canvas
24 x 24in. (61 x 61cm.)
Painted circa 1956
Provenance
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1968.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1968.
Literature
N. Cullinan, 'Finishing Well: Lucian Freud' in Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, exh. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, p. 334 (titled ‘Self-Portrait’; illustrated in colour, p. 107).
M. Gayford, Lucian Freud, vol. 1, London 2018, p. 610 (illustrated in colour, p. 210).
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 1, London 2025, pp. 16, 77, 88 and 218, no. 8 (illustrated in colour, p. 17).
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 2, London 2025, p. 244, no. 121 (illustrated in colour, p. 245).
M. Gayford, Lucian Freud, vol. 1, London 2018, p. 610 (illustrated in colour, p. 210).
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 1, London 2025, pp. 16, 77, 88 and 218, no. 8 (illustrated in colour, p. 17).
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 2, London 2025, p. 244, no. 121 (illustrated in colour, p. 245).
Exhibited
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Lucian Freud: Recent Work, 1968, p. 3, no. 1.
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Lucian Freud, 2013-2014, p. 158, no. 9 (titled ‘Self-Portrait’; illustrated in colour, p. 159).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits, 2019-2020, pp. 88 and 149, no. 35 (titled ‘Self-portrait’; detail illustrated in colour, p. 50; illustrated in colour, p. 89). This exhibition later travelled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
London, The National Gallery, Lucian Freud: New Perspectives, 2022-2023, p. 210, no. 24 (detail illustrated in colour on the inside front cover; illustrated in colour, p. 88). This exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Lucian Freud, 2013-2014, p. 158, no. 9 (titled ‘Self-Portrait’; illustrated in colour, p. 159).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits, 2019-2020, pp. 88 and 149, no. 35 (titled ‘Self-portrait’; detail illustrated in colour, p. 50; illustrated in colour, p. 89). This exhibition later travelled to Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
London, The National Gallery, Lucian Freud: New Perspectives, 2022-2023, p. 210, no. 24 (detail illustrated in colour on the inside front cover; illustrated in colour, p. 88). This exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
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