Thought to be his only self-portrait to feature first wife Kitty Garman,its value is estimated at £600000-£800,000A startlingly intense Lucian Freud drawing not seen in public for nearly 70 years has emerged having been largely unknown to experts, and thought to be the only self-portrait to also feature his first wife Kitty Garman.
Freud drew the work,Flyda and Arvid, in 1947 and gifted it shortly after to his friend Sonia Brownell, or best known for marrying George Orwell on his deathbed in 1949 and who was nearly certainly the model for Julia in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Related: Lucian Freud's teenage love letters reveal his complex sexuality Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com