Exhibitions
Distinguishing characteristics
By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 13 February 2012
Freud's Naked Solicitor
One of the surprises of “Lucian Freud Portraits” at London’s National Portrait Gallery is the label for Naked Solicitor. This credits the lender as “Property of a Distinguished Private Collector, Bali”—a phraseology more normally spotted in Christie’s and Sotheby’s evening auction catalogues, not in a public gallery. A portrait gallery spokesman told us that the credit had been requested by the owner. Naked Solicitor, 2003, was sold by the artist’s New York gallery, Acquavella, and ultimately ended up in its distinguished Balinese home. With a credit like this, one wonders whether the Freud might be heading for the market after the London exhibition closes on 27 May. And will this unusual credit line set off a trend, with exhibition lenders adding flowery descriptions of their prized collections (or themselves)?
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