The New Yorker
The New Yorker
Signed Print
Lucian Freud
£8,500-£12,500
$18,000-$26,000 Value Indicator
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56 x 65cm, Edition of 46, Etching
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Meaning & Analysis
The New Yorker (2006) is an etching by Lucian Freud that presents an older man in close-up detail. The face fills the frame; creased, unsmiling, and alert behind a pair of glasses. Freud’s dense, directional linework lends the portrait a quiet intensity, drawing attention to the sitter’s wary expression and the personality etched into his features.
Though stripped of colour and context, Lucian Freud's The New Yorker holds a sense of psychological weight that’s typical of the artist's work. The sitter is shown with little adornment, yet the tension in the eyes and mouth suggests an inner life that resists easy interpretation. Freud treats the surface of the face like terrain, mapping it through marks that are as much about presence as appearance. As with much of his printed work, this piece sits alongside his paintings in its preoccupation with the act of looking, and being looked at.