James Kirkman, London
Christopher Selmes, London
Aꦐcquired directly from the above by ꦜthe present owner

Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, Lucian Freud, 1983
London, Hayward Gallery, Lucian Freud, 1988, no. 127
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum; Edinburgh, The Fruitmarket Gallery; Hull, Ferens Art Gallery; Liverpool,  Walker Art Gallery; Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum; San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Art; New York, Brooke Alexander Gallery; Cleveland Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum, Lucian Freud Works on Paper, 1988-1989, no. 51, illustrated in colour
Rome, Palazzo Ruspoli; Milan, Castello Sforzesca; Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Lucian Freud, Paintings and Works on Paper 1940-1991, 1991-92, no. 61, illustrated in colour
Tochiyi, Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Nishinomiya, Otani Memorial Art Museum; Tokyo, Steagaya Art Museum; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Lucian Freud, 1992-93, no. 58, illustrated in colour

The London Magazine, November 1983, Vol. 23, no. 8, p. 42
Bruce Bernard & Derek Birdsall, Lucian Freud, London 1996, no. 179, illustrated in colour
William Feaver, Lucian Freud, New York 2007, no. 191, illustrated in colour
Sebastian Smee & Richard Calvocoressi, Lucian Freud on Paper, London 2008, no. 131, illustrated in colour

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality of the paper is slightly lighter in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The visible sheet is one side of a folio leaf folded in half, which has deckled edges and is hinged to the mount at the top corners. Very close inspection reveals there is very light artist's smudging towards the bottom right corners as visible in the catalogue illustration.
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"Lucian Freud's feeling for horses goes far back into childhood. At D🙈artington School in the 1930s he w💎ould sleep in the stables with the animals. 'I used to love to do that and rode a great deal...LF has a conception of life that embraces the human and the animal as two aspects of the same thing"

Martin Gayford, Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, London 2010, p. 68