Artist Monograph

Lucian Freud, British

British, born Germany. 1922–2011

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Etching	12	52.2%
Drawing	5	21.7%
Oil Painting	2	8.7%
Watercolor	2	8.7%
Other Media	2	8.7%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	21	91.3%
Painting & Sculpture	2	8.7%

Production by Decade

1940s

1950s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Classification Types

Print — 14
Drawing — 7
Painting — 2

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	6	27.3%
Medium (30–100 cm)	16	72.7%

Range: 11.6 cm → 94.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1948	1
1953	1
1954	2
1983	1
1988	2
1992	1
1994	1
1995	1
2002	4
2004	1
2005	3
2007	3
2012	1
2022	1

British Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 23 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Stephen Spender Drawing Acc. 1692.2005.a-b	1940	Ink on paper	8 1/2 x 5 1/2" (21.6 x 14 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
The Painter's Mother Drawing Acc. 1691.2005	1940	Ink on paper	8 3/8 x 5 3/4" (21.3 x 14.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Woman with a Daffodil Painting Acc. 12.1953	summer 1945	Oil on board on canvas	9 3/8 x 5 5/8" (23.8 x 14.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Purchase
Girl with Leaves Drawing Acc. 240.1948	1948	Pastel on gray paper	18 7/8 x 16 1/2" (47.9 x 41.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Portrait of a Woman Painting Acc. 546.1954	1949	Oil on canvas	16 1/8 x 12" (41 x 30.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Lincoln Kirstein
Dead Monkey Drawing Acc. 547.1954	1950	Pastel and watercolor on paper	8 3/8 x 14 1/4" (21.3 x 36.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Lincoln Kirstein
Untitled Drawing Acc. 1771.2012	1974	Colored ink on paper	10 x 7 1/8" (25.4 x 18.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Ann Temkin
Bella Print Acc. 281.2007	1982	Etching	plate: 6 x 7" (15.2 x 17.8 cm); sheet: 7 7/8 x 8 13/16" (20 x 22.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	David S. Orentreich Fund and Roxanne H. Frank Fund
Head of a Girl I Print Acc. 551.1983	1982	Etching	plate: 4 1/2 x 4 9/16" (11.4 x 11.6 cm); sheet: 10 3/8 x 9 7/16" (26 x 24 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	International Print Fund
Man Posing Print Acc. 463.1992	1985, published 1986	Etching	plate: 27 3/8 x 21 7/16" (69.5 x 54.5 cm); sheet: 34 3/4 x 28 7/8" (88.3 x 73.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of UBS
Head of a Man Drawing Acc. 36.1988	1986	Charcoal on paper	25 3/8 x 18 5/8" (64.4 x 47.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Agnes Gund
Girl Sitting Print Acc. 169.1988	1987	Etching	plate: 20 13/16 x 27 9/16" (52.9 x 70 cm); sheet: 24 1/16 x 30 9/16" (61.1 x 77.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Philip and Lynn Straus Foundation Fund
Lord Goodman in His Yellow Pyjamas Print Acc. 220.2002	1987	Etching with watercolor additions	plate: 12 5/16 x 15 3/4" (31.2 x 40 cm); sheet: 19 x 21 7/8" (48.3 x 55.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Miranda Kaiser Fund, Ann and Lee Fensterstock Fund, Marnie Pillsbury Fund, Lily Auchincloss Fund, Joanne M. Stern Fund and Walter Bareiss Fund
Head and Shoulders of a Girl Print Acc. 146.1994	1990	Etching	plate: 27 3/16 x 21 7/16" (69.1 x 54.5 cm); sheet: 30 11/16 x 24 11/16" (78 x 62.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Brooke and Carolyn Alexander
Four Figures Print Acc. 221.2002	1991	Etching	plate: 23 7/16 x 31 7/16" (59.5 x 79.9 cm); sheet: 26 15/16 x 37" (68.4 x 94 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro Fund, and Virginia Cowles Schroth Fund
Head of Leigh Drawing Acc. 1693.2005	1993	Charcoal on paper	26 1/2 x 19 1/4" (67.3 x 48.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Large Head Print Acc. 713.1995	1993	Etching	plate: 27 5/16 x 21 1/2" (69.4 x 54.6 cm); sheet: 31 1/4 x 25" (79.4 x 63.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Akio Morita Fund
Woman Sleeping Print Acc. 222.2002	1995	Etching	plate: 28 15/16 x 23 9/16" (73 x 59.4 cm); sheet: 32 1/4 x 26 5/8" (81.9 x 67.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Alexandra Herzan Fund and Linda Barth Goldstein Fund
Woman with an Arm Tattoo Print Acc. 223.2002	1996	Etching	plate: 23 3/8 x 32 1/8" (59.3 x 81.6 cm); sheet: 27 9/16 x 36 1/8" (70 x 91.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Jacqueline Brody Fund, Scott Sassa Fund, and Roxanne H. Frank Fund
Head of an Irish Man Print Acc. 283.2007	1999	Copper plate	overall: 29 5/16 x 22 5/16" (74.5 x 56.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist and Marc Balakjian Studio Prints
Head of an Irishman Print Acc. 282.2007	1999	Etching	plate: 29 1/4 x 22 1/4" (74.3 x 56.5 cm); sheet: 38 1/4 x 30 3/4" (97.2 x 78.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Eli Print Acc. 785.2022	2002	Etching	plate: 26 × 33 1/2" (66 × 85.1 cm); sheet: 30 7/16 × 40" (77.3 × 101.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Donated from the archive of Studio Prints in memory of Dorothea Wight and Marc Balakjian
Solicitor's Head Print Acc. 420.2004	2003	Etching	plate: 14 7/16 x 10 15/16" (36.7 x 27.8 cm); sheet: 23 1/4 x 19" (59.1 x 48.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Fractional and promised gift of Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro in celebration of the Museum's 75th anniversary