Lucian Freud’s Donegal Man will be offered by Dickinson at Frieze in London next week with a price tag of £15 million (€17.28 million). On the market for the first time Freud’s Profile Donegal Man, considered to be one of his greatest late portraits, will highlight the exhibition Artists in SOHO, Lawrence to Freud by London gallery Dickinson at Frieze Masters. Freud met Doherty through mutual friend Andrew Parker-Bowles, another Freud subject. “I used to go round to him every Saturday morning from 8.30 to 11.30” Doherty recalled. “He’d spend about two thirds of the time talking”. The painting, one of three separate portraits of Doherty by Freud, was acquired by Doherty directly from the artist. The first involved 100 sittings, the second 85 and the third, a sketch, took 35 sittings. Each sitting lasted for about three hours. Frieze London, running from October 11-15 at Regent’s Park, will bring together emerging and leading galleries spanning 46 countries. Doherty owns developments including shopping centres and hotels in Ireland, Britain, Europe and the US. The painting WAS on loan to the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 2016 to 2021.
