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LUCIAN FREUD (1922-2011)
Scillonian Beachscape
oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 30 1/8in. (51.5 x 76.5cm.)
Painted in 1945-1946
Provenance
Lefevre Gallery, London.
Collection of Fritz Hess, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s London, 20 November 1974, lot 186.
Private Collection, London.
James Kirkman, London.
Collection of Simon Sainsbury, London.
Thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
M. Collis, 'The New Men', in The Observer, 11 May 1947, p. 2.
B. Bernard and D. Birdsall (eds.), Lucian Freud London 1996, p. 352, no. 53 (illustrated in colour, p. 81).
C. Gibbs, 'A Search for Beauty', in Simon Sainsbury Bequest to Tate and the National Gallery, London 2008, p. 16.
M. Gayford, Lucian Freud vol. 1, London 2018, p. 323 (illustrated in colour, p. 124).
G. Aloi, Lucian Freud Herbarium, London 2019 (illustrated in colour, pp. 80-81).
W. Feaver, The Lives of Lucian Freud Youth 1922-68, London 2019, pp. 215, 216 and 261.
M. Gayford, Lucian Freud London 2022, p. 608 (illustrated in colour, p. 124).
D. Dawson and M. Gayford, Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954, London 2022, pp. 225 and 269.
R. Lindsay, ‘Lucian Freud Herbarium by Giovanni Aloi’, in Hortus, Summer 2022, no. 142.
Exhibited
London, Lefevre Gallery, Recent Paintings by Ben Nicholson Graham Sutherland and Francis Bacon Robert Colquhoun John Craxton Lucian Freud Robert MacBryde Julian Trevelyan 1946, p. 3, no. 31.
London, St George's Gallery, The New Generation: British Artists, 1947, no. 11.
Venice, XXVII Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte - British Pavilion, Exhibition of works by Nicholson, Bacon, Freud, 1954, no. 69.
London, Hayward Gallery, Lucian Freud 1974, no. 33 (illustrated, p. 44). This exhibition later travelled to Bristol, Bristol City Art Gallery; Birmingham, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery and Leeds, Leeds City Museum and Art Gallery.
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