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LUCIAN FREUD GALLERY Francis Bacon 1952
Header Photo: Low resolution detail from the haunting, hypnotic & jaw-droppingly beautiful Lucian Freud painting.
Girl in a Dark Jacket, 1947. Quite rightly it was used for the cover for the mother of all art books, Lucian Freud - Portraits (2012). Simply a book to own before you die.
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I saw this as a kid at Tate Britain just before it was 'permanently borrowed'. I always remembered just how small it was - small but I've never seen anything so powerful in just 12 cms or so. What a face! What a powerful face. It is Bacon yet it is not. It's more than him - it's the most striking head I have ever seen.
I wonder where it is today? Where once we could all enjoy it now someone, somewhere, has it all for themselves. But where the hell is it? I'm guessing it was stolen to order so a private collector would have it in a guarded room somewhere upon this earth.
Sad to think none of us will ever see it again.
Lucian Freud signed items @ ebay.co.uk (direct link to signed items and yes they are out there though rare)
Lucian Freud - Portraits Book Review
Lucian Freud - William Feaver (2005) Book Review
Lucian Freud - Paintings (1989) Book Review
Lucian Freud - Taschen Book (2007)
Lucian Freud - Marlborough Exhibition Catalogue, October 1963
Lucian Freud - Etchings 1946-2004 Book
Lucian Freud - The Painter's Etchings Book
Etchings of Lucian Freud - A Catalogue Raisonne 1946-1995 Book
Lucian Freud - Acqueforti Italian Book
Lucian Freud by William Feaver Book
The Glass Tower Illustrated by Lucian Freud Book
Lucian Freud - Arts Council 1974 Catalogue
Lucian Freud - Recent Drawings and Etchings 1994 Catalogue
Lucian Freud - Recent Etchings 1995-1999 Marlborough Graphics Exhibition Catalogue, 1999
Lucian Freud - Drawings, Selected by William Feaver Book
Lucian Freud - The Studio Book
A Painter's Progress: A Portrait of Lucian Freud Book
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