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- Freud’s portraits often represent bodies that are far from the stereotypical notion of beauty. In the vast history of art, nude women – whether it is Olympia, Venus or Judith – are all proud of their bodies, their bodily homes. But here, the women, through being nude become defenseless. Lack of clothes does not suggest sexuality or desire.
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Jul 20, 2011 · Settling in Paris in 1952, Freud painted many portraits, including Hotel Bedroom (1954), which features a woman lying in a bed with white sheets pulled up to her shoulders. Her left hand rests on her cheek, and her gaze is fixed on a faraway place.
- British
- December 8, 1922
- Berlin, Germany
- July 20, 2011
Oct 21, 2019 · Lucian Freud (1922–2011) changed how we look at people. He filled his canvases with bodies rarely given space elsewhere: fat bodies, ageing bodies, queer bodies, exhausted bodies. Some have described his portraits as ruthless, pitiless, clinical and cruel; others see them as intimate and honest records of humanity.
Jun 15, 2017 · Lucian Freud Portrait of a Woman 1949. On view. MoMA, Floor 5. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 16 1/8 x 12" (41 x 30.5 cm) Credit. Gift of Lincoln Kirstein.
Dec 4, 2019 · The portrait—of a real-life woman named Sue Tilly—would sell for $33.6 million in 2008; it was, at the time, the most expensive painting by a living artist to be sold at auction.
Jul 20, 2011 · Lucian Freud was a British artist, famous for his portraits and self-portraits painted in an expressive neo-figurative style. He was born in Berlin, the grandson of the revolutionary psychologist Sigmund Freud, and the son of an architect Ernst Freud and an art historian Lucie Brasch.
- British
- December 8, 1922
- Berlin, Germany
- July 20, 2011
Lucian Michael Freud OM CH [1] ( / frɔɪd /; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud.
Jun 6, 2024 · In studies such as Night Portrait (1985–86), Freud both highlighted and undercut the erotics of the female nude, opting out of the idealizing tendencies of much of the history of Western art. Beginning in the 1980s, Freud was increasingly drawn toward what could be called extreme body types.
