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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW SOUTH WALES

LUCIAN FREUD
1922-2011

Susanna (1996)

$12,000–18,000

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© Lucian Freud Archive/Bridgeman Images

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW SOUTH WALES

LUCIAN FREUD

1922-2011
Susanna (1996)

etching on paper, edition 13 of 40, plus 12 artist's proofs, 2 printer's proofs
inscribed '13/40' lower left; signed 'L. F.' lower right
29.5 x 29.8 cm (image); 50.2 x 50.2 cm (sheet)

  • Lot Sold $18,000 (Hammer Price)
  • $22,091 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Lucian Freud, London
James Kirkman Ltd, London
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney (label verso)
Private Collection, New South Wales, acquired from the above in 1999

Exhibited

Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 1999, no. 17 (label verso)

Literature

Craig Hartley, Lucian Freud: Recent Etchings 1995-1999, Marlborough Graphics, London, 1999, cat. no. 53 (illustrated, another impression)
Bruce Bernard and Derek Birdsall (eds), Lucian Freud, Jonathan Cape, London, 1996, plate 274, 'Head of a Woman', (illustrated, another impression)
Starr Figura, Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007, plate 57, pp. 88 (illustrated, another impression), 137
Sarah Howgate with Michael Auping and John Richardson, Lucian Freud Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2012, p. 196 (illustrated, another impression)
Martin Gayford, Lucian Freud, Phaidon, London, 2022, pp. 524 (illustrated, another impression), 615
Toby Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints, Modern Art Press, London, 2022, cat. no. 78, pp. 202, 203 (illustrated, another impression)

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Catalogue Notes

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Impressions of this etching are held in the following collections: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Fundación Museos Nacionales - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas Tate, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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