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Lucian Freud
Description
- Lucian Freud
- Drawing for Naked Figure
- pen and ink with gouache on paper
- 55.8 by 45.1cm.
- 22 by 17 3/4 in.
- Executed in 1973-74.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
Exhibited
London, Hayward Gallery, The Human Clay, 1976, no. 37
Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Venice, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Ca' Pesaro; Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum; St. Etienne, Musée d'Art Moderne, A School of London: Six Figurative Painters, 1987-88, no. 35, p. 58
London, Hayward Gallery, Lucian Freud, 1988, no. 43
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum; Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery; Hull, Ferens Art Gallery; Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery; Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum; San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Art; New York, Brooke Alexander Gallery; Cleveland Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum, Lucian Freud Works on Paper, 1988-1989, no. 43, illustrated in colour
Rome, Palazzo Ruspoli; Milan, Castello Sforzesca; Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Lucian Freud, Paintings and Works on Paper 1940-1991, 1991-92, p. 87, no. 60, illustrated in colour
Tochiyi, Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Nishinomiya, Otani Memorial Art Museum; Tokyo, Steagaya Art Museum; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Lucian Freud, 1992-93, no. 56, illustrated in colour
Literature
Lawrence Gowing, Lucian Freud, London 1984, p. 191, illustrated
Mark Holborn, Lucian Freud on paper, London 2008, nr. 119, illustrated in colour
Sebastian Smee & Richard Calvocoressi, Lucian Freud on Paper, London 2008, no. 119, illustrated in colour
Condition
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