Live Auction 13731Brian Sewell - Critic & Collector
John Minton (Great Shelford 1917-1957 London)
Lot 187

John Minton (Great Shelford 1917-1957 London)

Lucian Freud

Closed27 September 2016

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GBP 15,000

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John Minton (Great Shelford 1917-1957 London)
Lucian Freud
pencil, unframed
15 x 11¼ in. (38.1 x 28.5 cm.)
Executed in 1947.
There is an unfinished sketch of a male nude by the same hand on the reverse.

with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London.

Specialist note

Brian Sewell recalled showing the present work to Lucian Freud: 'he at once recalled it and expressed intense dislike - "too beautiful, too Jewish"'.