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After Chardin - Signed Print by Lucian Freud 2000 - MyArtBroker

After Chardin
Signed Print

Lucian Freud

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$7,500-$11,500 Value Indicator

-11% AAGR

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Medium: Etching

Edition size: 46

Year: 2000

Size: H 60cm x W 73cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Lucian Freud's After Chardin (signed) is estimated to be worth between £6,000 and £9,000. This etching, created in 2000, has shown consistent value growth since its first sale in March 2011. This work is somewhat rare to the market, having been sold 10 times in total. In the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £6,186 in October 2023 to £7,038 in July 2020. The average annual growth rate of this artwork is currently at -11%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 46.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
October 2023Christie's New York United States
July 2020Phillips New York United States
July 2019Christie's New York United States
November 2018Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers United States
August 2018Shapiro Auctioneers Australia
October 2015Phillips London United Kingdom
October 2015Phillips London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

In 1987, some thirteen years before this etching was produced, Lucian Freud was invited by London's National Gallery to participate in their exhibition series titled The Artist's Eye. Freud's was the third exhibition in this series, and the artist was invited "to disrupt for a month or so the usual historical display of the Gallery's paintings". Alongside a selection of the National Gallery's acclaimed works, Freud exhibited two of his own works to reveal the influence of these painters on his style and process.

Chardin's original painting, The Young Schoolmistress, was selected by Freud and curated alongside works which - in Freud's words - shared the quality that "they all make me want to go back to work". Indeed, Chardin's painting inspired Freud so much that he not only made two paintings responding to it, but also a pair of etchings over a decade later. Quite unlike Chardin's paintings, yet typical of Freud's style under Francis Bacon's influence, the two subjects have a pronounced hardness. The schoolmistress, with her overly accentuated nose, appears far more authoritative than Chardin's. Even more so, the child is rendered with almost grotesque scrutiny as Freud has emphasised every crevice of their plump flesh. By cropping Chardin's original composition, Freud invites the viewer into this somewhat rigid scene and gives a markedly claustrophobic atmosphere to the work. A once intimate and tender scene becomes, under Freud's commanding line, intense and almost uncomfortable.