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Lucian Freud portrait could fetch $29 million at Christie’s

Christie's employees look towards a family portrait from 1992 by Lucian Freud, at their auction rooms in London, Thursday, April 28, 2016. The painting valued at 18 million UK pounds (26.25 million US dollars) will be auctioned on June 30 in the Defining British Art sale. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Christie's employees look towards a family portrait from 1992 by Lucian Freud, at their auction rooms in London, Thursday, April 28, 2016. The painting valued at 18 million UK pounds (26.25 million US dollars) will be auctioned on June 30 in the Defining British Art sale. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

By Associated Press 1 min read

LONDON (AP) – Christie’s is selling a Lucian Freud painting of his pregnant daughter as part of a sale representing centuries of British portraiture.

“Ib and her Husband,” painted in 1992, is valued at about 18 million pounds ($29 million).

Works by Freud, who died in 2011 at 88, have sold for as much as $56 million.

The painting is part of a June 30 “Defining British Art” sale, announced Thursday, marking the 250th birthday of Christie’s auction house.

Other lots include Joshua Reynolds’ 1778 “Portrait of Lucy Long,” valued at up to 3 million pounds ($4.4 million) and Lord Leighton’s “Golden Hours” from 1864. It is valued at up to 5 million pounds ($7.3 million).