Live Auction 772920th Century British Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 1

Lucian Freud, O.M., C.H. (b. 1922)

A Peculiar Gull

Closed21 May 2009

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GBP 22,500

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Lucian Freud, O.M., C.H. (b. 1922)
A Peculiar Gull
inscribed 'End piece 'Five Peculiar Gulls' s/s END PIECE (p) end' (lower edge)
black ink on buff paper
5 x 6¾ in. (12.7 x 17 cm.)
Executed in 1944.

with Karsten Schubert, London.
with Archeus Fine Art, London.
with Richard Salmon, London.
with Austin Desmond, London.

Specialist note

This work is the end piece for Nicholas Moore's book of poems The Glass Tower which Freud illustrated in 1944.