Lucian Freud’s Pregnant Girl fetches £16m at auction

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>One of Lucian Freud’s most famous paintings has sold for more than £16m at auction&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Pregnant Girl depicts the artist’s 17-year-old lover Bernardine Coverley asleep while she was expecting their daughter Bella in the early 1960s&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Six bidders battled to secure the painting&comma; which was expected to fetch between £7 million and £10 million&comma; as the artwork went on sale at Sotheby’s in London&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Coverley was just 16 when she first met Freud&comma; who was 37&comma; in London’s Soho in 1959&period; They went on to have two children&comma; Bella&comma; now a renowned fashion designer&comma; and Esther&comma; an acclaimed novelist&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bella&comma; 54&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It must have been a very happy time in her life&comma; being pregnant with the man she loved and him wanting her to be there and paint her&period; I think he was undoubtedly the love of her life&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Oliver Barker&comma; Sotheby’s senior international specialist in contemporary art&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This astonishingly beautiful painting embodies the profound bond between Lucian and the mother of his two daughters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There is arguably no other portrait by Freud that is more gripping&comma; more tender&comma; and more laden with such emotional depth&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Freud&comma; who died in 2011 aged 88&comma; was the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the brother of the late television personality Sir Clement Freud&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His record sale came in May last year when a life-sized nude was sold at auction in New York for £35&period;7m&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11dcb80db">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed11dcb80db'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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