Lucian Freud
Portrait Head, 2001
Etching on Somerset Textured paper
59.7 x 47.3 cm (23 ½ x 18 ⅝ in)
Initialled ‘L.F’, lower right; numbered from the edition of 46 plus 12 AP, lower left
Description
The journalist Emily Bearn was the subject of this etching, she was also the sitter to several paintings in 2001-2002.
Provenance
The Artist
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Osborne Samuel, London
Literature
Starr Figura 61, Sebastian Smee 44
T. Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints, Modern Art Press, London, 2022, p. 239, no. 96 (ill.)
Exhibition catalogue, Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings, MoMA, New York, 2007, p. 92 (another impression ill.)
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings, 16 Dec 2007 – 10 Mar 2008 (another impression exh.)