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Property from a Private Collection, California

Lucian Freud

Stephen Spender

VAT reduced rateArtist's Resale Right

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Lucian Freud

1922 - 2011

Stephen Spender

variously inscribed (on the verso)

ink on paper

21.2 by 14 cm. 8⅜ by 5½ in.

framed: 29 by 22.3 cm. 11⅜ by 8¾ in.

Executed in 1940.

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 2003)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Lucian Freud: Drawings 1940, February - May 2003, pl. 2, illustrated

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