Lucian Freud Archive of Sketchbooks and Drawings gifted to the nation
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