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  • A RE-DISCOVERED DRAWING BY LUCIAN FREUD AT SOTHEBY’S

    Lucian Freud  - Girl and Self Portrait

    Lucian Freud – Girl and Self Portrait

    AN outstanding rediscovered drawing by Lucian Freud comes up at Sotheby’s Modern & Post-War British Art evening sale on November 17.  Girl and Self Portrait is the only self-portrait drawing by Freud known to feature his muse Kitty Garman, who was to become his first wife and whom he had painted devotedly from early 1947.

    It has remained in the possession of Sonia Brownell (1918-1980), second wife of George Orwell, since it was gifted to her by Lucian Freud in c1947.  It is estimated at £600,000-800,000.

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