A Lucian Freud Painting of His Daughter Could Fetch up to $24 Million at Auction

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The masterpiece by legendary painter Lucian Freud, unseen for over 20 years, will be hitting the auction block this month.

, which he completed after a months-long period in which she posed during 70 sittings at the artist’s West London studio. Boyt, who is shown barefoot, is seen reading Marcel Proust’s It is one of five paintings Freud produced depicting Boyt, and one of an estimated 30 works in which the artist portrayed his 14 children. Many of these works, according to Sotheby’s statement, were completed after a period of “paternal absence.

The painting has remained in the same private collection since it was acquired after Freud completed it in the 1990s. It was last shown publicly in an exhibition in New York in 2000. Freud’s work and his involvements with his models have become the subject of mainstream attention. Earlier this month, a Kate Moss-produced biopic focused on one model’s time posing for the painter in the early 2000s.which features the artist’s daughter Bella among its sitters, hammered at its estimate, selling for $86 million at Christie’s from the collection of the late tech mogul Paul Allen. The work set a new record for Freud.

 

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