The American Table: Works from the Collection of Barbara & Daniel Fendrick, Washington D.C.
Lucian Freud
1922 - 2011
Thistle
signed with the artist's initials (lower right); numbered 28/50 (lower left)
etching on Somerset Satin wove paper
plate: 6 ⅞ by 5 ⅜ in. (17.4 by 13.5 cm.)
sheet: 12 ¼ by 9 ⅞ in. (31 by 24.4 cm.)
Executed in 1985, this impression is number 28 from the edition of 50 plus 10 artist's proofs, co-published in 1986 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, pp. 74-75, no. 23, illustrated (another example illustrated)
