Lot Essay
Brian Sewell recalled showing the present work to Lucian Freud: 'he at once recalled it and expressed intense dislike - "too beautiful, too Jewish"'.
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Lucian Freud
Details
John Minton (Great Shelford 1917-1957 London)
Lucian Freud
pencil, unframed
15 x 11¼ in. (38.1 x 28.5 cm.)
Executed in 1947.
There is an unfinished sketch of a male nude by the same hand on the reverse.
Lucian Freud
pencil, unframed
15 x 11¼ in. (38.1 x 28.5 cm.)
Executed in 1947.
There is an unfinished sketch of a male nude by the same hand on the reverse.
Provenance
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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Lucy Cox