ANGELA CONNER (BRITISH B. 1935), LUCIAN FREUD ANGELA CONNER (BRITISH B. 1935)LUCIAN FREUD Bronze, mounted onto metal stand Signed to shoulder and base 165cm (64¾in.) High inc. base Artist and friend of Angela Conner, Freud was a renowned British painter known for his distinctive and often raw style of portraiture and figurative art. Whilst Lucien Freud produced a number of self-portraits he was famously difficult to convince to sit for other artists. Very few portraits of Freud exist amongst them include works produced by Francis Bacon, Sir Jacob Epstein and the present bust by Angela Conner. The bust was commissioned by Andrew Cavendish,11th Duke of Devonshire and was exhibited at the Chatsworth Theatre Gallery in 1975 alongside busts of other prominent British figures. 'Some are better than others. Some are brilliant. I think the best she's done is ... one of Lucian Freud which is here' at Chatsworth, Andrew Cavendish,The Duke of Devonshire Provenance: Direct from the artist's studio collection