Lucian Freud
(British, 1922 - 2011)
BELLA IN HER PLUTO T-SHIRT, 1995
etching on Somerset Satin White paper
68.0 x 59.5 cm (image)
81.5 x 71.0 cm (sheet)
105.0 x 96.0 cm (frame)
edition: 24/36, 3rd state
signed with initials and numbered below image: 24/36 L.F
Estimate:
$35,000 - $45,000
Sold:
$34,364 (inc. BP)
© Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images 2021
lot details
81.5 x 71.0 cm (sheet)
105.0 x 96.0 cm (frame)
signed with initials and numbered below image: 24/36 L.F
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
Private collection, Adelaide
Exhibited
Lucian Freud Etchings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 11 November – 23 December 2000 (another example)
Lucian Freud ‘Etchings 1946–2004’, touring exhibition, 2004: Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh; Abbot Hall, Kendal; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; 2005: Waterhall Gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Marlborough Fine Art, London (another example)
Lucian Freud, The Painter’s Etchings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 16 December 2007 – 10 March 2008, cat. 68 (another example)
Literature
Hartley, C., Lucian Freud: Recent Etchings, Marlborough Graphics, London, 1999, cat. 51, supplement to catalogue raisonné published 1995, (illus., unpaginated, another example)
Marks, M. (ed.), Lucian Freud Etchings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2000, cat. 23 (illus., unpaginated, another example)
Figura, S., Lucian Freud, The Painter’s Etchings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008, cat. 68, pp. 6, 7, 28, 85, 137 (illus. p. 6, frontispiece and p. 85, pl. 53, another example)
Related Works
Another example of this print is held in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin


