
David Hockney
2002
Lucian Freud's 2002 oil portrait of fellow artist David Hockney, showcasing his characteristic psychologically intense figurative style.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
British Art Evening Sale: Modern/Contemporary
June 29, 2021
Estimate: $8,000,000 to $12,000,000
Lot 10
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Frank Auerbach
British · b. 1931

Auerbach shares Freud's commitment to intense psychological figurative portraiture in oil, often depicting close friends and fellow artists with raw emotional directness and thick impastoed paint surfaces that convey deep personal scrutiny.

Leon Kossoff
British · b. 1926

Kossoff works within the same British figurative tradition as Freud, producing densely worked oil portraits that prioritize psychological weight and physical presence over idealization, often returning repeatedly to the same sitters to deepen his examination of their character.

Jenny Saville
British · b. 1970

Saville continues the unflinching figurative oil painting tradition that Freud exemplifies, creating large scale portraits that share his commitment to raw psychological intensity and a refusal to flatter the subject, placing her firmly in the same contemporary British figurative lineage.

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