Rare Lucian Freud Self-Portrait Set for $6.5 Million Sale

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed)
Jan 20th 2010 at 2:02PM

British painter Lucian Freud's Self-Portrait with a Black Eye, painted in 1978, headlines an impressive collection of work on offer during Sotheby's Contemporary Art auction in London on Feb.10. The brilliant artist's extremely rare self-portrait, never previously exhibited in public, is expected to fetch up to $6.5 million and is one of five Freud paintings crossing the block during this event. Also on offer are Willem de Kooning's key late work Untitled XIV, painted in 1983 and estimated at $3.25 million - $4.29 million; the monumental Abstraktes Bild from 1988 by Gerhard Richter, estimated at $3.25 million - $4.8 million; and Andy Warhol's Jackie from 1964, one of the artist's best known portraits of the famed first lady, estimated at $1.3 million - $2 million.

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