Lucian Freud Archive of Sketchbooks and Drawings gifted to the nation

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A Lucian Freud Archive of sketchbooks and drawings has been gifted to the nation by The Estate of Lucian Freud in settlement of £2,940,000 Inheritance Tax following the artist's death in 2011. 



The Archive comprises


47 Sketchbooks spanning his career from the mid-1940s up until his death
additional drawings; 
a collection of 162 childhood drawings and 
a collection of letters from Lucian

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