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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 1, 2016 | Christie's | London | Defining British Art Evening Sale | 7 | $****** - ****** | A Girl (Pauline Tennant) |
Works on Paper
45.1 x 40 cm (17.75 x 15.75 in)
conté crayon and coloured chalk on grey/green paper
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 April 1971, lot 182, where purchased by the previous owner.
Acquired by the present owner from the above in September 2004.
London, The London Gallery, Recent Paintings and Drawings by Lucian Freud and John Craxton, October - November 1947, no. 26, as 'Drawing of a girl'.<br>London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, Lucian Freud, January – March 1974, no. 37, as ‘A girl' and dated 1946: this exhibition travelled to Bristol, City Art Gallery, April; Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, May; and Leeds, City Museum and Art Gallery, June, p. 45, illustrated.<br>Edinburgh, Fruitmarket Gallery, Lucian Freud: Works on Paper, June – July 1988, no. 26, exhibition not traced.<br>Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Lucian Freud, June – September 2007, exhibition not numbered, as ‘Girl’s Head (Pauline Tennant)', dated 1944: this exhibition travelled to Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, September 2007 – January 2008; and The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, February – June 2008, p. 164, illustrated.<br>London, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, Lucian Freud Early Works 1940-58, October – December 2008, no. 17, as ‘Girl’s Head’ and dated 1946.<br>London, National Portrait Gallery, Lucian Freud: Portraits, February – May 2012, no. 6, as ‘A Girl’ and dated 1946: this exhibition travelled to Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum, July – October 2012, pp. 64, 246, illustrated.
M. Holborn (ed.), Lucian Freud on Paper, London, 2008, pp. 30-31, 161, no. 81, illustrated, as 'A Girl' and dated 1946.
