Freud painting of juvenile Guinness inheritor set to make €7m at public sale

A rarely-viewed Lucian Freud portray of the inheritor to the Guinness property in Wicklow is expected to fetch €7 million when it goes up for auction next month.

Head of a Boy, a portrait of the late Garech de Brún when he changed into sixteen, became painted in 1956 when Freud became married to de Brún's cousin, woman Caroline Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood.

"It's in reality fitting tougher and harder to locate these really scrumptious, delectable early works of Freud, they so infrequently come up," Christina Kennedy, head curator of the Freud challenge on the Irish Museum of up to date paintings, stated. "It's an attractive instance and besides the fact that it's a small, modest scale it's just an surprising work. It looks like a really excessive cost, but his work has been…