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)

Lot 5

Lucian Freud

BELLA IN HER PLUTO T-SHIRT

, 1995

lot details

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
Provenance

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