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Lucian Freud

Blond Girl on a Bed

Live auction begins on:

March 4, 06:00 PM GMT

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.

Please note that this lot was printed in the catalogue as Lot 18 and is now lot 19.

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