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Boy Asleep by Lucian Freud

Boy Asleep

Lucian Freud · 1943

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DETAILS
Artist
Lucian Freud
Date
1943
Medium
Graphite and colored pencil on paper
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions
11 × 6 5/8 in. (27.9 × 16.8 cm)
Collection
Modern and Contemporary Art
Credit line
Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005
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Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud, was a British painter renowned for his unflinching, psychologically intense portraits of friends and family.

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