Lucian Freud Head on a Green Sofa (1960-61)
A Freud portrait exceptional for its intimacy of Belinda, Lady Lambton, is estimated to make £2.5-3.5 million at Sotheby’s evening sale of contemporary art in London on February 12. Bindy Lambton featured large in the artist’s life for over 25 years.
This portrait, Head on a Green Sofa (1960-61) was long considered by Freud to be among the best works he ever produced. It has featured in many museum exhibiton and was last sen at the Freud retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2012. This exhibition subsequently travelled to the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art in Texas.