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Deborah Devonshire’s Chickens and Four Eggs on a Plate, with Tom Eddison

Deborah Devonshire’s Chickens and Four Eggs on a Plate, with Tom Eddison

Update: 2025-10-14
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This is an episode of The Specialist, your weekly dose of wonder. In The Specialist, explore the significance and journey of an extraordinary work through the eyes of those that know it best.


On today’s episode, the story of Four Eggs on a Plate, a small but powerful painting by Lucian Freud. Hidden away for years at Chatsworth House, the painting was unearthed by Tom Eddison, Head of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s London, and went on to become one of the surprises of the Contemporary Art Evening Auction in 2015.


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Deborah Devonshire’s Chickens and Four Eggs on a Plate, with Tom Eddison

Deborah Devonshire’s Chickens and Four Eggs on a Plate, with Tom Eddison

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