Landscape with Birds, 1940,
Lucian Freud (1922-2011), oil on panel, 39.5 x 32.5cm.
Two years ago, Lady Lucinda Lambton said her mother - known as Bindy - had a long relationship with
Lucian Freud.
Christie's auction house's contemporary art specialist Francis Outred said that 'Three Studies of
Lucian Freud' could beat 'Triptych' record, which was sold in 2008 for 86 million dollars, News.com.au reported.
VIENNA:
Lucian Freud did not live to see the first exhibition of his paintings in Vienna, the city his grandfather Sigmund fled in 1938, but he helped plan the retrospective that opens this week.
In a statement yesterday, Diana Rawstron, who has represented Freud for many years, said: "
Lucian Freud, artist, born 8 December 1922 in Berlin, died peacefully last night at his home in London."
Gaylord is a writer, art critic and curator who spent over two years sitting for a portrait by
Lucian Freud. In his diary of the experience the reader learns about the artist in his own words along with his memories of others artists from Picasso to Francis Bacon to David Hockney.
A life-sized nude of Moss by British painter
Lucian Freud sold at auction for almost pounds 4 million in 2005.
Sainsbury, who died last year, bequeathed works from artists including Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Francis Bacon and
Lucian Freud to the Tate and the National Gallery in what Tate director Nicholas Serota called one of the biggest art donations of the past century.
Lucian Freud is an artist whose work has redefined portraiture and the nude over the past twenty-five years.