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An interesting early 20th century Austrian cold painted bronze metamorphic erotic model formed as a rat  With provenance to Raymond Jones, first male nude model of Lucian Freud and purportedly gifted by the artist image 1
An interesting early 20th century Austrian cold painted bronze metamorphic erotic model formed as a rat  With provenance to Raymond Jones, first male nude model of Lucian Freud and purportedly gifted by the artist image 2
An interesting early 20th century Austrian cold painted bronze metamorphic erotic model formed as a rat  With provenance to Raymond Jones, first male nude model of Lucian Freud and purportedly gifted by the artist image 3
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An interesting early 20th century Austrian cold painted bronze metamorphic erotic model formed as a rat
With provenance to Raymond Jones, first male nude model of Lucian Freud and purportedly gifted by the artist

4 – 15 April 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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An interesting early 20th century Austrian cold painted bronze metamorphic erotic model formed as a rat

With provenance to Raymond Jones, first male nude model of Lucian Freud and purportedly gifted by the artist
The alert rodent with curling tail and hinged back opening to reveal a crouching nude maiden within, the whole raised on a rectangular green onyx base further raised on ball feet, 10cm high overall

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Provenance
Raymond Jones, first male nude model to Lucian Freud (Anglo-German, 1922-2011), also known as 'Rat Man'. The rat figure purportedly a gift from Lucian Freud, and is a reference to Freud's 1977-8 painting of Raymond, Naked Man with Rat . Their thirty year friendship started through Raymond's purchase of a portrait of Francis Bacon's then boyfriend George Dyer. Raymond later went on to sell it a decade later to fund the purchase of a West London house. Raymond sat for Freud several times, but it was the painting with the borrowed, champagne-drunk and painkiller-drugged rat that remains their most memorable collaboration.

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