Immortalised: King in his former restaurant
(Picture: Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures Ltd)A Lucian Freud portrait of restaurateur Jeremy King, who revived the Ivy, Le Caprice and for many years ran Piccadilly institution The Wolseley, is to be sold in an auction this autumn.
Straightforwardly titled “Head of Jeremy King”, the piece is technically an unfinished work and accordingly has remained as a copper plate rather than becoming an etching, as the rest of Freud’s plates were. As such it is a one-off; the estimate for it is £250,000—£350,000.
