This astonishing picture is a portrait of the fashion designer Bella Freud, the artist’s daughter with the designer Bernardine Coverley, born in 1961. We sourced it from a private collection in 2008, at the request of one of our clients who had been unsuccessful in bidding on the artist's 1995 work Benefits Supervisor Sleeping at Sotheby's earlier in the year.
Exhibited:
Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Lucian Freud: Paintings and Works on Paper 1940-1991, 1992;
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, and toured to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia, Lucian Freud: Recent Work, 1993-94, no.67;
St. Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Bacon-Freud, Expressions, 1995, no. 62;
London, Tate Britain, and toured to Barcelona, Fundacio Caixa and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lucian Freud, 2002-3, no. 109;
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, and toured to Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and The Hague, Gemeente Museum, Lucian Freud, 2007-8, no. 73.
Literature:
Bruce Bernard and Derek Birdsall, Lucian Freud, Random House, New York, 1996, no. 242, illustrated in colour.
