Nude with Leg Up (Leigh Bowery)
Date
1992
Artist
Lucian Freud, British, b. Berlin, Germany, 1922–2011
Provenance
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York, to 22 April 1993
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 1993
Exhibition History
WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, London. "Lucian Freud," 10 September-21 November 1993, color ill. Tour: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York, 13 December-27 March 1994; MUSEO NACIONAL CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA, Madrid, 19 April-21 June.
TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART. "Lucian Freud," 18 November 1996-18 February 1997, colorpl. 45, n.p.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996," 4 June-7 September 1997, unpublished checklist.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century," 7 October 1999-17 January 2000, no. 22, color ill. p. 57. Tour: HAUS DER KUNST, Munich, 11 February-30 April.
MUSEUM FUR MODERNE KUNST, Frankfurt. "Lucian Freud: Naked Portraits: Works from the 1940s to the 1990s," 29 September 2000-4 March 2001, no. 19, color ill. p. 189.
TATE BRITAIN, London. "Lucian Freud," 20 June-22 September 2002, cat. Tour: FUNDACIO "LA CAIXA," Barcelona, 22 October-12 January 2003; MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Los Angeles, 9 February-25 May.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA, Ottawa. "The Great Parade: Portrait of the Artist as Clown," 25 June-19 September 2004, cat. Tour: GALERIES NATIONALES DU GRAND PALAIS, Paris, 9 March-31 May 2005.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Strange Bodies," 11 December 2008-15 November 2009, no cat.
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris. "Lucian Freud: The Studio," 9 March-9 June 2010, cat.
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, London. "Lucian Freud Portraits," 9 February-28 May 2012, no. 85, color ill. p. 158; p. 249. Tour: MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH, 2 July-28 October 2012.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection," 16 October 2014-24 April 2016, no cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection," 9 June 2016-6 August 2017, no cat.
Published References
BERNARD, BRUCE. "The Fugitive Subject," Independent on Sunday (5 September 1993), ill. p. 14.
MCEWEN, JOHN. "Revealed, Cornered in his Lair, a Master," Sunday Telegraph (12 September 1993), p. 7.
FEAVER, WILLIAM. "How Blessed to Be Painted by Lucian Freud," Observer (12 September 1993), n.p.
FEAVER, WILLIAM. "Inside Freud's Mind," ArtNews 92, no. 7 (September 1993), p. 140.
BOWERY, LEIGH et al. "The Duke, The Photographer, His Wife, and the Male Stripper: Lucian Freud by His Subjects," Modern Painters 6, no. 3 (Autumn 1993), ill. p. 26.
UNSIGNED. "Realismus: Lucian Freud," Art: Das Kunstmagazin, no. 10 (October 1996), color ill. pp. 26-27.
JONES, JOYCE. "Recent and Recommended at the Hirshhorn," Washington Post (25 July 1997), p. 60.
VIOLETTE, ROBERT, ed. Leigh Bowery (London: Violette Editions, 1998), ill. pp. 169, 176, 179.
SEM-SANDBERG, STEVE. "Kropparna nagelfars valk för valk," Svenska Dagbladet (13 January 2001), ill. p. 7.
HOBAN, PHOEBE. “Amazingly Aware and Amazingly Abandoned: Lucian Freud and Leigh Bowery,” excerpt from Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open (Boston: New Harvest, Houghton Miffin Harcourt, 2014).
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School
School of London
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 1993
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
93.7
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
72 × 90 1/8 in. (182.9 × 229 cm)
