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Acquavella Galleries is an art gallery located at 18 East 79th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
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Lucian Freud
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Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
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…Rauschenberg, Sisley, Segonzac, Feininger, Giacometti, and Miró. Until his death in 2011, the gallery was the international agent for the British painter Lucian Freud. Today the gallery represents Wayne Thiebaud, Miquel Barceló, Jacob El Hanani, and Damian Loeb. Notes…
Freud in 2005
Girl with a White Dog, 1951–1952, Tate Gallery. Portrait of Freud's first wife, Kitty Garman, the daughter of Jacob Epstein and Kathleen Garman
138 Kensington Church Street (left). This was Freud's residence and studio from the late 1970s until his death.
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, 1995, a very large portrait of "Big Sue" Tilley, showing his handling of flesh tones, and a typical high viewpoint