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Lucian Freud

A Young Painter

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March 4, 09:10 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Lucian Freud

1922 - 2011


A Young Painter

oil on canvas

41.9 by 39.1 cm. 16½ by 15⅜ in.

Executed in 1957-58.

Please note that this lot was printed in the catalogue as lot 16 and is now lot 17.

Sir Oliver and Lady Scott, Windemere

Christie’s, London, 28 February 1975, lot 175 (consigned by the above)

Directors of Baring Brothers & Co., London

Saatchi Collection, London (acquired by 1990)

Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner

London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Lucian Freud: Paintings, March - April 1958, no. 17, n.p.

London, Kensington and Chelsea Arts Council, Commonwealth Institute Art Gallery, British Painting Since 1900, January - February 1969, no. 68 (checklist) (titled Male portrait)

London, Hayward Gallery; Bristol, Bristol City Art Gallery; Birmingham, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery and Leeds, Leeds City Museum and Art Gallery, Lucian Freud, January - June 1974, no. 77, p. 48, illustrated

London, Barbican Art Gallery, Capital Painting: Pictures from Corporate Collections in the City of London, April - June 1984, no. 91, p. 54, illustrated

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Paris, Musee National d’Art Moderne; London, Hayward Gallery and Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Lucian Freud Paintings, September 1987 - June 1988, no. 18, p. 42, illustrated in colour

London, Saatchi Collection, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Richard Deacon: The Saatchi Collection, March - November 1990

London, National Portrait Gallery and Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Lucian Freud Portraits, February - October 2012, no. 26, p. 87, illustrated in colour and p. 246 (checklist)

Lawrence Gowing, Lucian Freud, London 1982, no. 79, p. 103, illustrated

Angus Stewart, "Lucian Freud," RSA Journal, vol. 136, no. 5380, March 1988, p. 279

Martin Golding, “‘Realism’ and the Real," Modern Painters, vol. 3, no. 2, 2 June 1990, p. 84, illustrated in colour

Bruce Bernard, Lucian Freud, London 1996, no. 92, p. 234, illustrated in colour 

James Hyman, The Battle for Realism: Figurative Art in Britain During the Cold War, 1945-60, London 2001, no. 115, pp. 109-10, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Lucian Freud: Naked Portraits: Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, 2001, p. 81

Sebastian Smee, Lucian Freud, Cologne 2007, p. 24, illustrated in colour and p. 26

Angus Stewart, "A Glimpse of Freud's Early Genius," Country Life, vol. 202, no. 41, 8 October 2008, p. 279

Edward Booth-Clibborn, ed., The History of the Saatchi Gallery, London 2011, p. 241, illustrated in colour

Martin Gayford, David Dawson and Mark Holborn, eds., Lucian Freud, London 2018, vol. 1, p. 11 and p. 216, illustrated in colour

William Feaver, The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth 1922-1968, London 2019, pp. 484 and 514

Exh. Cat., London, National Gallery (and travelling), Lucian Freud: New Perpectives, 2022, p. 41

Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume 1, London 2025, no. 129, pp. 83 and 112

Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume 2, London 2025, no. 129, pp. 214, 252 and pp. 260-61, illustrated in colour