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		</div><p>One of Lucian Freud’s most famous paintings has sold for more than £16m at auction.<br />
Pregnant Girl depicts the artist’s 17-year-old lover Bernardine Coverley asleep while she was expecting their daughter Bella in the early 1960s.</p>
<p>Six bidders battled to secure the painting, which was expected to fetch between £7 million and £10 million, as the artwork went on sale at Sotheby’s in London.</p>
<p>Coverley was just 16 when she first met Freud, who was 37, in London’s Soho in 1959. They went on to have two children, Bella, now a renowned fashion designer, and Esther, an acclaimed novelist.</p>
<p>Bella, 54, said: “It must have been a very happy time in her life, being pregnant with the man she loved and him wanting her to be there and paint her. I think he was undoubtedly the love of her life.”</p>
<p>Oliver Barker, Sotheby’s senior international specialist in contemporary art, said: “This astonishingly beautiful painting embodies the profound bond between Lucian and the mother of his two daughters.</p>
<p>“There is arguably no other portrait by Freud that is more gripping, more tender, and more laden with such emotional depth.”</p>
<p>Freud, who died in 2011 aged 88, was the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the brother of the late television personality Sir Clement Freud.</p>
<p>His record sale came in May last year when a life-sized nude was sold at auction in New York for £35.7m.</p>
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