Art Institute of Chicago

Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink

Lucian Freud · 1983/87

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist; sold through James Kirkman Limited, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 19, 1987.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Lucian Freud: Paintings, Sept. 15–Nov. 29, 1987, cat. 81; Paris, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Dec. 16, 1987–Jan. 24, 1988; London, South Bank Centre, Hayward Gallery, Feb. 4–Apr. 7, 1988; Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, May 6–June 12, 1988.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Lucien Freud, Sept. 10–Nov. 21, 1993, cat. 26; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dec. 16, 1993–Mar. 13, 1994; Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Apr. 19–June 21, 1994, no cat. no. (NY and Madrid only).
Frankfurt, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Change of Scene XVIII, Sept. 29, 2000–Mar. 5, 2001, cat. 13.
London, Tate Britain, Lucian Freud, June 20–Sept. 22, 2002, cat. 101; Barcelona, Fundació la Caixa Barcelona, Oct. 24, 2002–Jan. 12, 2003 (preview date of Oct. 23); Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Feb. 9–May 25, 2003.
Venice, Italy, Museu Civici Veneziani, Museo Correr, Lucien Freud, June 11–Oct. 30, 2005, cat. 36.
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Lucian Freud: The Studio, Mar. 10, 2010–July 19, 2010, no cat. no.
Vienna, Kunshistoriches Museum Wien, Lucien Freud, Oct. 8, 2013–Jan. 6, 2014 (extended to Jan. 12th), cat. 27; Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Feb. 6, 2014–May 18, 2014 (Vienna only).
New York, Gagosian Gallery, In the Studio, Feb. 17, 2015–Apr. 18, 2015, no cat. no.

Literature

Published references

Henry Meyric Hughes, Andrea Rose, and Robert Hughes, Lucian Freud Paintings, exh. cat. (London: The British Council in association with Thames and Hudson Ltd and South Bank Centre Publications, 1987), n.p.(color ill.), 133
Henry Meyric Hughes, Andrea Rose, and Robert Hughes, Lucian Freud Paintings, exh. cat. (London: The British Council in association with Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1987), n.p.(color ill.), 117.
Robert Storr, “In The Flesh: Lucian Freud,” Art in America, 76, no. 5 (May 1988): 133.
Marina Warner, “Lucian Freud: The Unblinking Eye,” New York Times Magazine, Dec. 4, 1988, 68, 70 (ill.), 96, 110-111, 122, 130.
Catherine Lampert, Lucian Freud: Recent Work, exh. cat. (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1993), 70-71 (color ill.).
María de Corral López-Doriga and Catherine Lampert, Lucian Freud, exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 1994), 50, 51 (color ill.), 156.
Angus Cook, “Seeing Things,” in Lucian Freud: Recent Drawings and Etchings, exh. cat. (New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1993), n.p., as Two Japanese Wrestlers Near a Sink.
Robert Hughes, “The Fat Lady Sings,” TIME, 142, no. 27 (Dec. 27, 1993), 74 (color ill.), 75.
John McEwen, “Revealed, cornered in his lair, a master,” The Sunday Telegraph, Sept. 12, 1993, 67.
Robert Hughes, “Freudian Analysis,” TIME, Jan. 17, 1994, 45–46.
Bruce Bernard and Derek Birdsall, Lucian Freud (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), 19, n.p. (color ill.) as pl. 194, 356.
Craig Hartley, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Rolf Lauter, Lucian Freud: Naked Portraits: Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, exh. cat. (Frankfurt am Main: MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, 2001), 120, 170, 171 (color ill.), 173 (color ill. detail).

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