
Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection
A Young Painter
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March 4, 09:10 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000,000 - 6,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Lucian Freud
1922 - 2011
A Young Painter
oil on canvas
41.9 by 39.1 cm. 16½ by 15⅜ in.
Executed in 1957-58.
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
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