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After Chardin - Signed Print by Lucian Freud 2000 - MyArtBroker

After Chardin
Signed Print

Lucian Freud

£4,300-£6,500Value Indicator

$9,000-$13,500 Value Indicator

$8,000-$12,000 Value Indicator

¥40,000-¥60,000 Value Indicator

€4,950-€7,500 Value Indicator

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¥850,000-¥1,290,000 Value Indicator

$6,000-$8,500 Value Indicator

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60 x 73cm, Edition of 46, Etching

Medium: Etching

Edition size: 46

Year: 2000

Size: H 60cm x W 73cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: October 2023

Value Trend:

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Location
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Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
October 2023
Christie's New York
United States
$6,500
$7,500
$9,500
July 2020
Phillips New York
United States
July 2019
Christie's New York
United States
November 2018
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers
United States
August 2018
Shapiro Auctioneers
Australia
October 2015
Phillips London
United Kingdom
October 2015
Phillips London
United Kingdom
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Lucian Freud's After Chardin (signed) is a remarkable etching from the year 2000, with an estimated value of £4,300 to £6,500. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 9%. The hammer price over the last five years has ranged from £6,186 in October 2023 to £7,038 in July 2020. This work is somewhat rare, having been sold 10 times since its initial sale in March 2011. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 46.

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Meaning & Analysis

In 1987, some thirteen years before this etching was produced, Lucian Freud was invited by London's National Gallery to participate in their exhibition series titled The Artist's Eye. Freud's was the third exhibition in this series, and the artist was invited "to disrupt for a month or so the usual historical display of the Gallery's paintings". Alongside a selection of the National Gallery's acclaimed works, Freud exhibited two of his own works to reveal the influence of these painters on his style and process.

Chardin's original painting, The Young Schoolmistress, was selected by Freud and curated alongside works which - in Freud's words - shared the quality that "they all make me want to go back to work". Indeed, Chardin's painting inspired Freud so much that he not only made two paintings responding to it, but also a pair of etchings over a decade later. Quite unlike Chardin's paintings, yet typical of Freud's style under Francis Bacon's influence, the two subjects have a pronounced hardness. The schoolmistress, with her overly accentuated nose, appears far more authoritative than Chardin's. Even more so, the child is rendered with almost grotesque scrutiny as Freud has emphasised every crevice of their plump flesh. By cropping Chardin's original composition, Freud invites the viewer into this somewhat rigid scene and gives a markedly claustrophobic atmosphere to the work. A once intimate and tender scene becomes, under Freud's commanding line, intense and almost uncomfortable.

  • Famed for his representations of the human form, Lucian Freud is one of the 20th Century's most celebrated artists. The grandson of psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, the artist confronts the psychological depth and bare complexities of the human body. From his early works to his celebrated nudes and portraits, Freud's canvases resonate with an almost tactile intensity, capturing the essence of his subjects with unwavering honesty. Freud painted only himself, close friends, and family, which floods his work with an intimacy that is felt by the viewer. His pursuit of honesty through portraiture shaped the trajectory of figurative art in the 20th century.

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