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LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Etching printed with tone, 1988, on Somerset Satin wove paper, initialled and numbered 21/30 in pencil, the second state (of two), printed by Marc Balakjian at Studio Prints, published by James Kirkman, London and Brook Alexander, New York, the full sheet, in overall very good condition, framed
Plate 369 x 410mm. (14 1/2 x 16 1/8in.); Sheet 470 x 502mm. (18 1/2 x 19 3/4in.)
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Provenance
Sotheby's, Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints, London, Tuesday 2 July 2002, lot 198.
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Lucian Freud Etchings 1946-2004, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (with their label); Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery; Marlborough Graphics, London, 2004–05.
Lucian Freud, Museo Correr, Venice, 2005 (with their label).
Lucian Freud: Etchings, Northcote House Gallery, University of Exeter, 2007.
The sitter in this work is Angus Cook, a filmmaker who sat for Freud regularly between 1985 and 1990. Angus was one of the few men that posed completely naked for Freud, and in fact one of the first ones to have done so. Freud made seven etchings of Angus, including the one presented here.
This work closely relates to another two etchings made the year before in 1987, Naked Man on a Bed (state I), and Naked Man on a Bed (state II), albeit in the present version the focus is on the sleeper's head, emphasizing the infantile effects of sleep on a grown-up man's facial features, and wonderfully conveying Freud's liking for 'people to look as natural and as physically at ease as animals' (Lucian Freud, quoted in Feaver, Lucian Freud, 2002, pp.41-42).
This is the first time an impression of this etching has come to the market since 2013.
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