.jpg?w=1)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BRITISH COLLECTION
LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Old Man Running
Details
LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Old Man Running
signed with the artist's initials 'LMF' (lower right)
oil on canvas board
10 7⁄8 x 14 ¾in. (27.7 x 37.5cm.)
Painted in 1937-1938
Old Man Running
signed with the artist's initials 'LMF' (lower right)
oil on canvas board
10 7⁄8 x 14 ¾in. (27.7 x 37.5cm.)
Painted in 1937-1938
Provenance
Lucie Freud, London.
A gift from the artist to the present owner in 1989.
A gift from the artist to the present owner in 1989.
Literature
G.V.M, 'Oil Painting Club Exhibition', in SAGA Bryanston School Magazine, Summer 1938, pp. 37-38.
P. Guggenheim, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict, New York 1983, p. 190.
B. Bernard, 'Organic Nude', in Independent Magazine, 1 December 1990, p. 15 (dated '1936').
B. Bernard and D. Birdsall (eds.), Lucian Freud, London 1996, pp. 17 and 351, no. 4 (illustrated in colour, p. 28; dated '1936').
R. Ingleby, 'The Eye on...Visual Arts', in The Independent, 18 January 1997, p. 30.
R. Ingleby, 'An A to Zebra of Lucian Freud', in The Independent, 8 April 1997 (dated '1937').
M. Gayford, Lucian Freud, vol. 1, London 2018, pp. 7, 28, 322 (illustrated in colour, p. 31; as canvas, dated '1936').
W. Feaver, The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922-1968, London 2019, pp. 48 and 53.
M. Gayford, Lucian Freud, London 2022, pp. 7, 28, 322 (illustrated in colour, p. 31; as canvas, dated '1936').
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 2, London 2025, p. 12, no. 1 (illustrated in colour, p. 13).
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 4, London 2025, p. 282.
P. Guggenheim, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict, New York 1983, p. 190.
B. Bernard, 'Organic Nude', in Independent Magazine, 1 December 1990, p. 15 (dated '1936').
B. Bernard and D. Birdsall (eds.), Lucian Freud, London 1996, pp. 17 and 351, no. 4 (illustrated in colour, p. 28; dated '1936').
R. Ingleby, 'The Eye on...Visual Arts', in The Independent, 18 January 1997, p. 30.
R. Ingleby, 'An A to Zebra of Lucian Freud', in The Independent, 8 April 1997 (dated '1937').
M. Gayford, Lucian Freud, vol. 1, London 2018, pp. 7, 28, 322 (illustrated in colour, p. 31; as canvas, dated '1936').
W. Feaver, The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922-1968, London 2019, pp. 48 and 53.
M. Gayford, Lucian Freud, London 2022, pp. 7, 28, 322 (illustrated in colour, p. 31; as canvas, dated '1936').
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 2, London 2025, p. 12, no. 1 (illustrated in colour, p. 13).
C. Lampert and T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, vol. 4, London 2025, p. 282.
Exhibited
Dorset, Bryanston School, Oil Painting Club Exhibition, 1938.
London, Guggenheim Jeune, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Children, 1938.
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Lucian Freud: Early Works, 1997, p. 51, no. 1, plate no.1 (illustrated in colour, p. 19; dated '1937').
London, Guggenheim Jeune, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Children, 1938.
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Lucian Freud: Early Works, 1997, p. 51, no. 1, plate no.1 (illustrated in colour, p. 19; dated '1937').
Brought to you by
Stephanie Rao
Specialist, Co-head of Day Sale