Letters written by artist in his early 20s to his girlfriend Felicity Hellaby provide insights into Freud's life,
Lucian Freud's letters are expected to fetch £3,000 to £5,000.
Some of them look as if they have been written by a seven-year-old, although it would be an unusually developed child who wrote so gleefully about putrefying birds, Daumier lithographs and his joy at purchasing a zebra's head.
In fact the letters were written by Lucian Freud in his early twenties, and they are packed with his waspish wit, skittish restlessness and pleasure at the high-low life he lived so rapaciously.
This week Sotheby's will auction this previously unseen cache of letters, mostly written in 1943 and all of them addressed to Felicity Hellaby, one of the first of Freud's many girlfriends, whom he met at art school.
Oliver Barker, Sotheby's senior international specialist in contemporary art, said the letters provided fascinating insights into Freud's life, thoughts and interests.
"It is so interesting that he would have such an intense correspondence with a girlfriend from his time at art school," Barker said.
"They kind of have everything. Paintings he was working on, plays that he'd seen, films he'd seen, jackets that he'd bought, props he'd bought, compositions he was struggling with. It's a litany of the favourite things that Lucian loved and set the tone for the rest of his life."
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In fact the letters were written by Lucian Freud in his early twenties, and they are packed with his waspish wit, skittish restlessness and pleasure at the high-low life he lived so rapaciously.
This week Sotheby's will auction this previously unseen cache of letters, mostly written in 1943 and all of them addressed to Felicity Hellaby, one of the first of Freud's many girlfriends, whom he met at art school.
Oliver Barker, Sotheby's senior international specialist in contemporary art, said the letters provided fascinating insights into Freud's life, thoughts and interests.
"It is so interesting that he would have such an intense correspondence with a girlfriend from his time at art school," Barker said.
"They kind of have everything. Paintings he was working on, plays that he'd seen, films he'd seen, jackets that he'd bought, props he'd bought, compositions he was struggling with. It's a litany of the favourite things that Lucian loved and set the tone for the rest of his life."
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