
Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection
Blond Girl on a Bed
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Estimate
6,000,000 - 8,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Lucian Freud
1922 - 2011
Blond Girl on a Bed
oil on canvas
40.6 by 50.8 cm. 16 by 20 in.
Executed in 1987.
Saatchi Collection, London
Acquavella Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner
London, Hayward Gallery, Lucian Freud Paintings, February - April 1988, no. 94, p. 123, illustrated in colour
London, Saatchi Collection, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Richard Deacon: The Saatchi Collection, March - November 1990
London, Whitechapel Gallery; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Lucian Freud: Recent Work, September 1993 - June 1994, no. 29, p. 77, illustrated in colour
New York, Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Rear View, April - June 2023
Alistair Hicks, New British Art in the Saatchi Collection, London 1989, no. 26, p. 44, illustrated in colour
Mario Naves, “The British Invasion [of New York],” New Art Examiner, vol. 21, no. 8, May 1994, p. 33, illustrated in colour
Bruce Bernard, Lucian Freud, London 1996, no. 199, p. 234, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Lucian Freud: Naked Portraits: Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, 2001, p. 116
Sebastian Smee, Lucian Freud, Cologne 2007, p. 68, illustrated in colour
Richard Calvocoressi and Sebastien Smee, Lucian Freud: On Paper, London 2008, p. 7
Edward Booth-Clibborn, ed., The History of the Saatchi Gallery, London 2011, pp. 232-33, illustrated in colour
Martin Gayford, David Dawson and Mark Holborn, eds., Lucian Freud, London 2018, vol. 2, p. 13 and p. 71, illustrated in colour
Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume 1, London 2025, no. 310, pp. 66 and 102
Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume 3, London 2025, no. 310, pp. 286-87, illustrated in colour
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