Description
Size: I. 34.3 x 42.5 cm (13 1/2 x 16 3/4 in.) ; S. 57.2 x 66 cm (22 1/2 x 26 in.)
Edition: 46. There were also 12 AP’s, 2 PP’s & 1 BAT
Note: Before the Fourth is a portrait of society figure, actress and friend of Freud’s, Annabel Mullion, pregnant with her fourth child William Ajax Baring, who was born in June 2004. Freud had painted Mullion once before, with her dog Rattler in 1998, and did so a second time a year after the present etching for the related painting Expecting the Fourth. The artist was a constant admirer of Mullion’s enduring beauty, and she was described by the scholar Catherine Lampert in Freud’s Guardian obituary as having “limbs still like a thoroughbred”, and quoted one of Freud’s favourite authors, Baudelaire, to describe the longevity of her youth: “vainly have time and love sunk their teeth into her”.
Related work: ‘Expecting the Fourth’ (2005), oil on canvas, 10.2 x 15.2 cm
Literature:
Tony Treves: Lucien Freud Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints: Number 106
Gayford 2018B, reproduced p.272
Figura, S., Lucian Freud ‘The Painters Etchings’, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2007 – page 26, Fig 12. Freud’s etchings were the subject of a major exhibition, Lucian Freud: The Painters Etchings at the Museum of Modern art in New York which ran from December 2007 to March 2008.
Proofed by: Paul Dewis at London Print Studio
Published by: Acquavella LLC, New York
Printed by : Marc Balakjian at Studio Prints, London
Public Collections: Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Provenance:
- Marlborough Graphics, Madrid. We have a photograph of the invoice from 2011. The previous Spanish owner purchased the work for the sum of €24,000
- . Marlboroough label verso. Stock number GMOM21152
- Private collection, Spain
Condition: In very good condition.
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