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The American Table: Works from the Collection of Barbara & Daniel Fendrick, Washington D.C.

Lucian Freud

Thistle

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The American Table: Works from the Collection of Barbara & Daniel Fendrick, Washington D.C.

Lucian Freud

1922 - 2011

Thistle

signed with the artist's initials (lower right); numbered 28/50 (lower left)

etching on Somerset Satin wove paper

plate: 6 ⅞ by 5 ⅜ in. (17.4 by 13.5 cm.)

sheet: 12 ¼ by 9 ⅞ in. (31 by 24.4 cm.)

Executed in 1985, this impression is number 28 from the edition of 50 plus 10 artist's proofs, co-published in 1986 by James Kirkman and Brooke Alexander.

Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York

Acquired from the above in July 1989 by the present owner

Craig Hartley, The Etchings of Lucian Freud : A Catalogue Raisonné, 1946-1995, London, 1995, pp. 74-75, no. 23, illustrated (another example illustrated)