Freud prints set for auction

By The Newsroom
Published 3rd Jan 2012, 06:00 BST
A COLLECTION of 45 works by the late Lucian Freud created over a 25-year period and said to be the most complete array of his prints ever to be auctioned is to be sold next month.

The etchings include images of sitters such as Sue Tilley – known as “fat Sue”, an oil portrait of whom sold for £20.6m, setting a new world record in 2008 – as well as his daughter Bella.

The works, valued at tens of thousands of pounds each, come from the private collection of Freud’s printer Magar Balakjian and will be sold by Christie’s on February 15. The artist and the master printer worked together for a quarter of a century.