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[Art] Freud, Lucian, Typed Letter, signed
[Art] Freud, Lucian
Typed Letter, signed
London: September 10, 1975. 1p. 4to. From Freud to Victoria Donohoe (likely relating to her role as Art Director for the 41st. Eucharistic Congress): "... Although a request to paint the Pope could be a grand and serious challenge...for me the project holds no attraction and little interest. The reason is this: I am in the middle, and always will be in the middle, of working slowly from a small number of people who I know, who interest me, and who play a part in my life. Limiting as this doubtless is, it would be frivolous nevertheless to depart from my chosen subject matter. Also, it is most unlikely that I should be able to produce something of even small artistic interest, working from a man I do not know, under alien conditions. Yours Sincerely, Lucian Freud." On the letterhead of the British art dealer Anthony d'Offay, and accompanied with original typed address air mail postal envelope, as well as a typed post card to Donohoe addressing this matter signed by Anthony d'Offay.Victoria Donohoe (1929-2018), was a freelance art critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1962-2012, artist and historian. Instrumental in placing Narbrook Park in Narberth, Pennsylvania on the U.S. Register of Historic Places.
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[Art] Freud, Lucian
Typed Letter, signed
London: September 10, 1975. 1p. 4to. From Freud to Victoria Donohoe (likely relating to her role as Art Director for the 41st. Eucharistic Congress): "... Although a request to paint the Pope could be a grand and serious challenge...for me the project holds no attraction and little interest. The reason is this: I am in the middle, and always will be in the middle, of working slowly from a small number of people who I know, who interest me, and who play a part in my life. Limiting as this doubtless is, it would be frivolous nevertheless to depart from my chosen subject matter. Also, it is most unlikely that I should be able to produce something of even small artistic interest, working from a man I do not know, under alien conditions. Yours Sincerely, Lucian Freud." On the letterhead of the British art dealer Anthony d'Offay, and accompanied with original typed address air mail postal envelope, as well as a typed post card to Donohoe addressing this matter signed by Anthony d'Offay.Victoria Donohoe (1929-2018), was a freelance art critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1962-2012, artist and historian. Instrumental in placing Narbrook Park in Narberth, Pennsylvania on the U.S. Register of Historic Places.
