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Girl Sitting - Signed Print by Lucian Freud 1987 - MyArtBroker

Girl Sitting
Signed Print

Lucian Freud

£7,000-£11,000Value Indicator

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61 x 78cm, Edition of 50, Etching

Medium: Etching
Edition size: 50
Year: 1987
Size: H 61cm x W 78cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: December 2023

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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
December 2023
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
$11,500
$14,000
$18,000
May 2023
Artcurial
France
March 2023
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
June 2022
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
September 2021
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
September 2019
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
March 2015
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
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Lucian Freud's Girl Sitting (signed) from 1987 is an etching with an estimated value of £7,000 to £11,000. This artwork has been sold 11 times at auction since its initial sale in May 2008. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £11,000 in December 2023 to £18,144 in September 2021. The average annual growth rate of this piece is 5% and the edition size is limited to 50.

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Meaning & Analysis

Though the identity of this unnamed sitter is unknown, we can observe in Girl Sitting an intimate bond between sitter and artist so typical of Freud's work. Renowned for his risqué love-life, the sitter might have been one of Freud's many lovers who sat for him in the studio.

In his handling of composition, this work is not dissimilar to another of Freud's Naked Portraits: Girl Holding Her Foot. Though Freud has depicted these figures in seemingly odd places, and left their backgrounds unmarked, his masterful tonality gives weight to their nudes bodies. In many works from our Naked Portraits collection of his work, Freud focuses on the curvature of women's bodies, challenging demanding beauty standards and the expectations of women's bodies in popular culture.

  • 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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