Girl with a Fig Leaf, Lucian Freud, 1947
Lucian Freud, portraitLucian FreudEnglish, 1922–2011

Girl with a Fig Leaf

1947 · Print

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Not on view at present

Where is “Girl with a Fig Leaf” now? Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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In this state since
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The museum

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Accession number
1991.616

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In the life of Lucian Freud

The whole life
  1. 1940s

    A love triangle with Minton and Ryan

    In the 1940s Freud and fellow artists Adrian Ryan and John Minton were in a love triangle; in those years Freud also admired Minton's work.

  2. summer 1946

    Trip to Paris and Greece to visit John Craxton

    In the summer of 1946 Freud went to Paris and then on to Greece for several months to visit John Craxton. Other accounts have him spend several months with Craxton in Paris and then visit Italy.

  3. 1948

    Marries Kitty Garman

    After an affair with Lorna Wishart, Freud married her niece Kitty Garman, daughter of the sculptor Jacob Epstein and the socialite Kathleen Garman. They had two daughters, Annabel and the future poet Annie Freud.

  4. 1948

    Daughter born: Annie Freud

  5. 3 July 1948

    Married: Kitty Garman

  6. 1949–1954

    Visiting tutor at the Slade School of Fine Art

    From 1949 to 1954 Freud was a visiting tutor at the Slade School of Fine Art of University College London.

All works

On view at Art Institute of Chicago

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