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Important Australian + International Fine Art - 4 May 2016  |  Melbourne

Lot 89
Lucian Freud
(1922 – 2011, British)
CONVERSATION, 1998

etching on Somerset textured white paper

20.0 x 25.5 cm (image), 33.5 x 38.0 cm (sheet)



Estimate:
$12,000 – 15,000




Lot Details

Description

Lucian Freud
(1922 – 2011, British)
CONVERSATION, 1998

etching on Somerset textured white paper

20.0 x 25.5 cm (image), 33.5 x 38.0 cm (sheet)

signed lower right within image: LF
signed with initials and numbered below image

Provenance

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Lucian Freud: Etchings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 11 November – 23 December 2000, cat. 33 (another example)

Literature

Hartley, C.,Lucian Freud: Recent Etchings, Marlborough Graphics, London, 1999, cat. 57, continuation of catalogue raissonné published 1995, (illus., another example)
Marks, M. (ed.), Lucian Freud Etchings – with Esther Freud's "Ode to Pluto", Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2000, cat. 33 (illus., another example)