Lot Essay
This work is the end piece for Nicholas Moore's book of poems The Glass Tower which Freud illustrated in 1944.
A Peculiar Gull
Details
Lucian Freud, O.M., C.H. (b. 1922)
A Peculiar Gull
inscribed 'End piece 'Five Peculiar Gulls' s/s END PIECE (p) end' (lower edge)
black ink on buff paper
5 x 6¾ in. (12.7 x 17 cm.)
Executed in 1944.
A Peculiar Gull
inscribed 'End piece 'Five Peculiar Gulls' s/s END PIECE (p) end' (lower edge)
black ink on buff paper
5 x 6¾ in. (12.7 x 17 cm.)
Executed in 1944.
Provenance
with Karsten Schubert, London.
with Archeus Fine Art, London.
with Richard Salmon, London.
with Austin Desmond, London.
with Archeus Fine Art, London.
with Richard Salmon, London.
with Austin Desmond, London.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Early Works by Lucian Freud, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1997, p. 15, illustrated.
R. Calvocoressi and S. Smee, Lucian Freud on Paper, London, 2008, p. 23, illustrated.
R. Calvocoressi and S. Smee, Lucian Freud on Paper, London, 2008, p. 23, illustrated.
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