Lucian Freud

British | 1922 - 2011

Lucian Freud was a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1922. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like MGKSiegen. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Fitzwilliam Museum have featured Lucian Freud's work in the past.Lucian Freud's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 10 USD to 86,265,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 86,265,000 USD for Large Interior, W11 (after Watteau), sold at Christie's New York in 2022. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 1,668,220 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 231,111 USD.Lucian Freud has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The Skinny in April 2025. The artist died in 2011.

Artist's alternative names: Lucien Freud

Featured for Sale

The New Yorker, 2006 ,2006

By Lucian Freud

Bonhams Australia, Sydney

Sleeping Girl ,1988

By Lucian Freud

Sotheby's New York

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Notable Lots

PORTRAIT ON A WHITE COVER

By Lucian Freud

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Waste Ground, Paddington ,1970

By Lucian Freud

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Girl with Closed Eyes ,1986

By Lucian Freud

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Upcoming Lots

Sleeping Girl ,1988

By Lucian Freud

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The New Yorker, 2006 ,2006

By Lucian Freud

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Recent Auction Results

Head Of Man, 1986-87 ,1986

By Lucian Freud

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Girl Holding her Foot ,1985

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Head of Ali ,1999

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Current Exhibitions

Auras: Portraits of Women by British Artists

Lévy Gorvy Dayan, London

Mayfair | London | UK

Mar 06,2025 - Jun 08,2025

Look, the Eyes

MGKSiegen

Siegen | Germany

Dec 06,2024 - Jun 15,2025

Impressions: Selected Works from Jerwood Collection

Edinburgh Printmakers

Edinburgh | UK

Apr 04,2025 - Jun 29,2025

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Articles

Daily Art Magazine 16/04/2025

Moving houses is an enterprise, isn鈥檛 it? Packing, getting rid of useless but loved items, sending boxes with winter clothes.

Observer 16/04/2025

With sales of post-2000 artworks down 27 percent year-over-year, the HAT 100 points to a shift in power from speculative darlings to postwar and blue-chip names.

The Skinny 02/04/2025

Motherhood and creativity is the subject of a landmark exhibition in Dundee, while Portia Zvavahera presents her dreamscapes at Fruitmarket and Jupiter Artland reopens for 2025

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Coverage

鈥� ..Renowned for his portrayal of the human form, Freud is best known for his intimate, honest, often visceral portraits... 鈥�
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Irish Museum of Modern Art

鈥� ..Lucian Freud, for example, is known for his penetrating portraits, and there are even two drawings by the legendary cartoon artist R... 鈥�
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Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg

鈥� ..Although best known as a painter, etching has become integral to his practice... 鈥�
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MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art

鈥� ..Freud always prided himself on his drawing, and Feaver believes that the 鈥榠nterplay between the works on paper, both drawings and etchings, and the paintings of the past 70 years鈥� was crucial to his artistic... 鈥�
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Blain Southern, London

鈥� ..Speaking of the artist鈥檚 earliest work, Feaver observes : 鈥楩rom childhood there were drawings of goblins and fairies, tables piled high and the pear tree outside the Freuds鈥� holiday home on the Baltic... 鈥�
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Blain Southern, London