Lucian Freud 1922-2011
Human Radio (recto) Drawing (verso), 1940
coloured inks on paper
22 x 15 cm (8 ½ x 5 ¾ inches)
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This work is amongst Freud’s most powerful early drawings, perhapsan existential cry, carrying with it the intensity of Edvard Munch’s TheScream and anticipating Francis Bacon’s later Screaming Popes, orperhaps something...
This work is amongst Freud’s most powerful early drawings, perhapsan existential cry, carrying with it the intensity of Edvard Munch’s TheScream and anticipating Francis Bacon’s later Screaming Popes, orperhaps something more prosaic: a figure caught in mid conversation.
Provenance
The artistMatthew Marks Gallery, USA
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibitions
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Lucian Freud: Drawings 1940, February-April 19, 2003Literature
Smee, Sebastian, Lucian Freud: Drawings 1940. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2003, pls. 25 (recto) 27 (verso), ill. in colour1
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