Head and Shoulders

Maker

(artist)
1922-2011

(etcher)
1922-2011

Title

Head and Shoulders

Date of Production

1982

Medium

etching

Dimensions

Height: 29.8 cm
Width: 29.8 cm

Accession Number

G.2012.XX.6

Mode of Acquisition

Frank Helmuth Auerbach, gift, 16.3.2012

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This sheet forms part of a gift of nine etchings by Lucian Freud presented by one of the late artist’s closest friends, the painter Frank Auerbach. Freud gave the works to Auerbach over several years during the 1980s and early 1990s; the period when the etchings were produced. The group is distinguished by the exceptionally high quality of impressions and by its comprehensiveness. The nine sheets cover Freud’s principal subjects of the period, ranging from head studies to male and female nudes and a rare still life.

Provenance

previous owner : Freud, Lucian & Auerbach, Frank

Exhibition History

Lucien Freud Etchings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/09/2012-18/01/2013

Literature

Lucian Freud Etchings 1946-2004, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,Edinburgh; Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal and Elsewhere April 2004-summer 2005 Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland 2004
Cat. 15

Lucian Freud: Etchings from the Paine Webber Art Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and Elsewhere Jan. 23, 1999 - Nov. 12, 2000. New Haven Conn. Yale Center for British Art 1999
Cat. 10

Hartley, Craig, The Etchings of Lucian Freud: A Catalogue Raisonne 1946-1995, London : Marlborough Graphics ; Bergamo : Galleria Ceribelli 1995
22
ill. on pp. 70-71 ...More

Treves, Toby, Lucian Freud : Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints. London : Modern Art Press, 2022.
Cat. 15 on pp. 76-77 (repr.)
pp. 13, 33, 74, 92-93, 136, 274

Silva Arturo, 'Lucian Freud Exhibit: Etching in Some Portraits of Paradox', The Daily Yomiuri, 2 January 1984
repr.

Marks, Matthew. 'The Graphic Works of Lucian Freud', Print Quarterly, vol. 3, no.4, December 1986, pp. 321-34.
no. 23 on pp.322-3, fig. 216

Lipshultz, Sandra Lawall. 'A Horror of the Idyllic: Works on Paper by One of the Greatest Living Artists of Our Time,' Arts: Magazine for Members of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, vol. 12, March 1989, pp. 8-11.
p. 11

Hartley, Craig. Lucian Freud: Etchings 1946-1990, exh. cat., Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, 1991.
unpaginated

Bruce Bernard, Lucian Freud, London 1996.
pl. 172

Andreas Franzke, Lucian Freud: Radierungen/Etchings, exh. cat., Museum fur Gegenwarstkunst Siegen, 1997.
p. 11

Blattner Evamarie. 'Colour as Material- Lines as Purveyors of Meaning: On the Work of Lucian Freud', Lucian Freud: Prtins, exh. cat., Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen 2002, pp. 17-25.
p. 21

Hartley 2001, 'Beyond Description: Freud as an Etcher', Lucian Freud: Naked Portraits: Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, exh. cat. Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 2001, pp. 197-223.

Cork, Richard. Lucian Freud: The Trenchant Gaze, Lucian Freud- A Closer Look, exh. cat., Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, 2015.
p. 62 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : signed by the artist & handwritten in pencil : lower margin & recto : : proof For Frank / L.F

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