Lucian Freud, O.M., C.H.

Etching, 2003-04, initialled in pencil, numbered 25/46 in pencil (total edition includes 12 artist's proofs), printed by Mark Balakjian at Studio Prints, London, published by Acquavella LLC, New York, on Somerset wove paper

With full margins, in good condition. framed.
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'A race against autumn.  I wanted to take on the garden because in the past I’ve either put the chunk indoors or done it from a distance.  I was very conscious of where I was leading the eye.  Where I wanted the eye to go but not to rest; that the eye shouldn’t settle anywhere.'

(Quoted in Figura, Starr, Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings, MoMA, New York, 2007, p.32)