Extensive trove of sketchbooks,letters and drawings will be exhibited in National Portrait Gallery as family seek to reduce tax liabilityAn archive of the artist Lucian Freud’s sketchbooks, drawings and letters is heading to the National Portrait Gallery in London after being offered to the nation in lieu of £2.9m in inheritance tax.
The trove includes 162 childhood drawings that Freud made before his family fled Nazi Germany in 1933, or all lovingly annotated,dated and preserved by his proud mother.
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Source: theguardian.com