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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  02 May 2023 ~ 6.30pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  75
• Lot Description:
  Lucian Freud
  (1922-2011)
  Head of Bruce Bernard (1985)
  etching on paper, edition 8 of 50, plus 15 artist's proofs
  29.7 x 29.3 cm (image); 51 x 47 cm (sheet)
  inscribed '8/50' lower left; signed 'L. F.' lower right
• Provenance:
  Lucian Freud, London; James Kirkman Ltd, London; Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney; Private Collection, Sydney, acquired from the above in July 1986
• Exhibited:
  Lucian Freud, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 October 1992 - 10 January 1993; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1 February - 14 March 1993, no. 56 (label verso)
• Notes:
  SELECTED LITERATURE; William Feaver, Lucian Freud, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1992, pp. 75 (illustrated), 89 Craig Hartley, The Etchings of Lucian Freud: A Catalogue Raisonné 1946-1995, Giugno, Bergamo, 1995, cat. no. 26, pp. 20, 80, 81 (illustrated, another impression); Bruce Bernard and Derek Birdsall (eds), Lucian Freud, Jonathan Cape, London, 1996, plate 189 (illustrated, another impression); Starr Figura, Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007, figure 14, p. 29 (illustrated, another impression); Martin Gayford, Lucian Freud, Phaidon, London, 2022, pp. 402 (illustrated, another impression), 613; Toby Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints, Modern Art Press, London, 2022, cat. no. 35, pp. 116, 117 (illustrated, another impression)
• Estimate:
  A$12,000 - 18,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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