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After Chardin Small Plate - Signed Print by Lucian Freud 2000 - MyArtBroker

After Chardin Small Plate
Signed Print

Lucian Freud

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15 x 20cm, Edition of 80, Etching

Medium: Etching

Edition size: 80

Year: 2000

Size: H 15cm x W 20cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: February 2025

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Location
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Hammer Price
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February 2025
Christie's New York
United States
$3,550
$4,200
$5,500
October 2024
Rago
United States
February 2024
Chiswick Auctions
United Kingdom
July 2023
Christie's New York
United States
October 2018
Christie's New York
United States
November 2017
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
October 2017
Sotheby's New York
United States
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The value of Lucian Freud’s After Chardin Small Plate (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,300 and £4,950. This etching print, created in 2000, has shown consistent value growth since its first sale in April 2008. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £2,731 across 2 sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £2,154 in October 2024 to £4,800 in February 2024. The current average annual growth rate is -4%. This artwork has an auction history of 16 total sales and the edition size is limited to 80.

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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". 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 reimagining of the subject in a series of etchings over a decade later.

This particular etching, capturing a zoomed-in cross section of Chardin's original, was likely a predatory study for his etching of the entire composition. By magnifying a small element of Chardin's work, Freud experimented directly onto the etching plate, using hatched marks in layers to build tone, texture, and impressive modulations in light. As the title of the work suggests, the plate is small, but offers us a glimpse into Freud's mastery over his etching process. Freud is renowned today for his treatment of the etching plate almost like a canvas, and this work conveys his adept command of line when printing a portrait.

  • 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.