
Oliver Cornish
Sale Coordinator for Furniture, Sculpture, Rugs & Tapestries
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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.