LONDON—Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert gallery is mounting an exhibition of previously unseen early works by Lucian Freud this October, reports the Times of London, which has published six of the images.

The exhibition, opening October 9, will include 32 paintings and drawings dating from 1940 to 1958, including portraits of his friend the poet Stephen Spender (completed when Freud was 17), the poet David Gascoygne, and his frequent model Henrietta Moraes.

The works were gathered from private collections across the world with the help of Catherine Lampert, an academic who's staged Freud exhibitions at the Hayward and Whitechapel galleries, and David Dawson, the artist's longtime model and assistant.

Lampert said the team discovered through their search process that one early portrait by Freud, now the world's most expensive living artist, had been destroyed by its subject, who disliked its portrayal of his double chin.