Lucian Freud

Acquavella Galleries, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1996

Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Lucian Freud: Paintings and Etchings, 1996, no. 38, illustrated in colour on the cover (detail); pp. 8 and 12 (text); p. 67, illustrated in colour

New York, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Lucian Freud: New Work, 1996, illustrated in colour on the cover (detail), no. 15, n.p., illustrated in colour

Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Lucian Freud: Naked Portraits, 2000-01, illustrated in colour on the cover; n.p., illustrated in colour (installation view); no. 20, pp. 39-45 and 191, illustrated in colour; pp. 192-93, illustrated in colour (detail); p. 219 (text)

London, Tate Britain; Barcelona, Fundació la Caixa de Catalunya; and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lucian Freud, 2002-03, no. 131, n.p.. illustrated in colour (dated 1996)

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Lucian Freud: The Studio, 2010, pp. 42-43 and 69 (text); p. 151, illustrated in colour

London, National Portrait Gallery and Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Lucian Freud: Portraits, 2012, no. 91, p. 165, illustrated in colour (dated 1996)

London, Tate Britain and Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life, 2018-19, pp. 52 (text) and 157, illustrated in colour (dated 1996)

New York, Acquavella Galleries, Lucian Freud: Monumental, 2019, p. 22, illustrated in colour (detail); p. 52, illustrated in colour

London, National Gallery and Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lucian Freud: New Perspectives, 2022-23, no. 72, pp. 18, 23, 42 (text) and 196, illustrated in colour (dated 1996)

London, National Portrait Gallery, Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting, 2026, no. 150, p. 167, illustrated in colour 

Bruce Bernard and Derek Birdsall, eds., Lucian Freud, London 1996, no. 288, pp. 22-23 (text) and n.p., illustrated in colour (dated 1996)

William Feaver, “The Naked Eye,” Observer Life, 23 June 1996, p. 26, illustrated in colour; p. 28 (text)

Waldemar Januszcak, “Large as Life, and up there with Titian,” Sunday Times: Sculpture, 21 January 1996, pp. 14-15, illustrated in colour

Martin Gayford, “Up close and personal,” Daily Telegraph, 26 June 1996, n.p., illustrated

Lesley Garner, “A master with the talent to lay bare his subject’s soul,” Daily Express, 5 July 1996, p. 40 (text)

Martin Gayford, “The Brutality of Fact,” Modern Painters, vol. 9, Autumn 1996, pp. 46 (text) and 48, illustrated in colour

Maggie Gee, “The skull beneath Freud’s skin,” New Statesman, vol. 125, no. 4295, 2 August 1996, p. 39 (text) 

John McEwen, “Tenderness–not Prurience,” Sunday Telegraph, 4 August 1996, n.p., illustrated in colour (detail)

Richard Kendall, “Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud,” Apollo, vol. 143, no. 417, November 1996, p. 46 (text)

Exh. Cat., Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Lucian Freud, 1996, pp. 98-99 (text)

Exh. Cat., London, Marlborough Graphics, Lucian Freud: Recent Etchings 1995-1999, 1999, n.p. (text)

Nathan Kernan, “Flesh and Ink: The Etchings of Lucian Freud,” Art on Paper, vol. 3, no. 5, May - June 1999, p. 42 (text) (dated 1996)

Richard Dorment, “Lucian and His Women,” Telegraph Magazine, 1 June 2002, pp. 56 and 58-59, illustrated in colour (titled Dreaming by the Lion Carpet)

William Feaver, “Seeing through the Skin,” The Guardian, 18 May 2002, p. C18 (text)

Martin Gayford, “Exhibitions: Looking Hard,” The Spectator, vol. 289, no. 9072, 22 June 2002, p. 55 (text) (dated 1996)

Tom Lubbock, “In a class by himself,” The Independent, 21 June 2002, pp. 8 and 27 (text)

Exh. Cat., Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Lucian Freud: Etchings 1946-2004, 2004, pp. 20-21 (text)

Sebastian Smee, Lucian Freud 1996-2005, London 2005, no. 6, p. 6, illustrated in colour (dated 1996)

Sebastian Smee, “A brush with death,” The Guardian, 12 November 2005, p. 13, illustrated in colour 

William Feaver, Lucian Freud, New York 2007, no. 278, p. 25 (text); pp. 348-49, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Naked Portrait, 2007, p. 28 (text)

Sebastian Smee, Lucian Freud, Cologne 2007, pp. 81 and 90, illustrated in colour (dated 1996)

Roland Kanz and Norbert Wold, eds., Portraits, London 2008, pp. 94-95, illustrated in colour (titled Sleeping by the Lion Carpet (Sue Tilley) and dated 1996)

Ellen Handler Spitz, “Lucian Freud: Psychoanalysis in Paint?,” American Imago, vol. 67, no. 3, Autumn 2010, pp. 448-49, illustrated

Michael Glover, “Great Works: Sleeping by the Lion Carpet 1995-6 (228.6cm x 121.3cm), Lucian Freud,” The Independent, 29 July 2011, online, illustrated in colour

Jackie Wullschläger, “Specimens of Humanity,” Financial Times, 10 February 2012, online (text) (dated 1996)

Ingrid Moeslein-Teising and Frances Thomson Salo, eds., The Female Body: Inside and Outside, New York 2013, no. 3, pp. 46-48, illustrated in colour

George Prochnik, “A Tale of Two Freuds: Thinking in Pictures,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 13 March 2014, online, illustrated in colour

Virginia Button, British Artists: Lucian Freud, London 2015, no. 44, pp. 62-64 (text) and 65, illustrated in colour (dated 1996)

Martin Gayford, David Dawson and Mark Holborn, eds., Lucian Freud, vol. 1, London 2018, p. 17 (text) (dated 1996)

Martin Gayford, David Dawson and Mark Holborn, eds., Lucian Freud, vol. 2, London 2018, p. 178, illustrated in colour (dated 1996)

Clair Woodward, “My Life as a Muse,” Sunday Express, 25 February 2018, n.p. (text)

Cameron Laux, “Lucian Freud and Sue Tilley: The Story of an Unlikely Muse,” BBC Culture, 14 May 2018, online, illustrated in colour (installed in London, Tate Britain, All Too Human, 2018)

Andrew Graciano, ed., Visualizing the Body in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine Since 1800: Models and Modeling, New York 2019, no. 10.3, pp. 240–243, 248 (text); p. 241, illustrated in colour

William Feaver, The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame 1968-2011, London 2020, pp. 310, 324-5, 327, 365 (text); between pp. 418 and 419, illustrated in colour (dated 1996)

Toby Treves, ed., Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints, London 2022, p. 28, illustrated in colour; p. 200 (text)

Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Volume 4, London 2025, no. 390, p. 121, illustrated in colour