Lucian Freud Jewish father, Ernst L. Freud, an architect. He was a grandson of Sigmund Freud, and elder brother of the broadcaster, writer and politician Clement Freud (thus uncle of Emma and Matthew Freud) and the younger brother of Stephan Gabriel Freud. The family emigrated to St John's Wood, London, in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. Lucian became a British subject in 1939, having attended Dartington Hall School in Totnes, Devon, and later Bryanston School, for a year before being expelled due to disruptive behaviour. Freud briefly studied at the Central School of Art in London, and from 1939 to
Three Studies of Lucian Freud at auction. When inflation is taken into account, a higher price was reached at the same auction house for Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet", which in 1990 sold for $ million current dollars. Bacon's triptych did surpass the constant dollar record of $119.9 million set by the fourth version of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" in May 2012. The 2013 sale also represents the highest price paid for a work by a British or Irish artist, beating Bacon's "Triptych 1976", which fetched $86.3 million in May 2008. Three Studies of Lucian Freud Three Studies of Lucian Freud is a 1969