The American Table: Works from the Collection of Barbara & Daniel Fendrick, Washington D.C.
Lucian Freud
1922 - 2011
Head of a Man
signed with the artist's initials (lower right); inscribed AP V/X (lower left) (Hartley calls for 6 artist's proofs)
etching on BFK Rives wove paper
plate: 8 ⅞ by 7 ¼ in. (22.5 by 18.3 cm.)
sheet: 19 ¾ by 17 ⅜ in. (50.5 by 44.1 cm.)
Executed in 1986-87, this impression is 1 of 6 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 20, co-published by James Kirkman and Brooke Alexander.
Condition Report
Provenance
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above in July 1989 by the present owner
Literature
Craig Hartley, The Etchings of Lucian Freud : A Catalogue Raisonné, 1946-1995, London, 1995, p. 86-87, no. 29, illustrated (another example illustrated)