Head of Ali 1999

Lucian Freud (1922-2011, British)

Head of Ali 1999

etching on Somerset textured white paper
59.5 x 43.0 cm

numbered and signed with initials below image

Provenance:

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

Private collection, Sydney

Exhibited:

Lucian Freud - Etchings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 11 November - 23 December 2000, cat.36 (another example)

Sean Scully, Alun Leach-Jones, Lucian Freud, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, 7 September - 2 October 2004

Rex Irwin Art Dealer at the Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 29 September - 4 October 2004

Lucian Freud: About Men, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales, 25 August - 14 October 2007; Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 20 October - 18 November 2007 (label attached verso)

Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 16 December 2007 - 10 March 2008, cat.79 (another example)

Lucian Freud: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 9 February - 27 May 2012 (another example)

Reference:

Hartley, C., Lucian Freud: Recent Etchings 1995-1999, Marlborough Graphics, London, 1999, no.59 (illus., another example)

Marks, M. (ed.), Lucian Freud Etchings - with Esther Freud's 'Ode to Pluto', Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2000, cat.36 (illus., another example)

Feaver, W., Lucian Freud, Tate Publishing, London, 2002, cat.300 (illus., another example)

Figura, S., Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008, pp.30, 109 (illus. pl.79, another example)

Smee, S., Lucian Freud 1996-2005, Jonathan Cape, London, 2009, cat.42 (illus., another example)

Howgate, S., Lucian Freud Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2012, p.195 (illus., another example)

Estimate: $24000 - 32000