2. Lucian Freud
1922-2011
Girl Sitting, 1987 Etching printed with plate tone, on Somerset Satin paper, with full margins, signed with initials and annotated ‘proof’ in pencil (an unnumbered proof aside from the edition of 50 and 10 artist’s proofs) published by James Kirkman, London and Brooke Alexander, New York, framed. I. 54.3 x 69.9 cm (21 3⁄8 x 27 1⁄2 in.) S. 56.5 x 75.9 cm (22 1⁄4 x 29 7⁄8 in.) Estimate £20,000-30,000 $30,400-45,500 €27,200-40,800 ‡ z Provenance The Artist Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Private Collection Exhibited New York, Museum of Modern Art, Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings, 16 Dec 2007 - 10 Mar 2008 (another impression exhibited and illustrated p.67) New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Lucian Freud: Recent Drawings and Etchings, 11 Dec 1993 24 Jan 1994 (this impression exhibited and illustrated pl.3) Literature Catherine Lampert 30 Craig Hartley 33 Starr Figura 36 Print Quarterly 34 Bruce Bernard and Derek Birdsall 217
Girl Sitting, 1987-88 Oil on canvas Private Collection © The Lucian Freud Archive/ Bridgeman Images
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