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Jul 20, 2011 · Later on, during the 1980s and 1990s, when he became increasingly popular, Freud made portraits of many famous subjects - an art critic Martin Gayford, an artist David Hockney, and the British Queen Elizabeth II. Freud is also famous for his self-portraitists which he painted obsessively.
- Annabel Sleeping
This artwork was painted between 1987 - 1988, when Freud was...
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Lucian Freud besuchte in Berlin das Französische Gymnasium....
- Queen Elizabeth II
The small canvas took over six months to complete and was...
- Hotel Bedroom
Settling in Paris in 1952, Freud painted many portraits,...
- David Hockney, 2002
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- Annabel Sleeping
On 10 November 2015 Freud's 2004 painting The Brigadier, a portrait of Andrew Parker Bowles in his British Army uniform, sold for $34.89 million US at Christie's in New York City, beating the $30 million US presale estimate for the work.
Oct 21, 2019 · In a world first, this autumn we're uniting Lucian Freud’s self-portraits in one extraordinary exhibition. See more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this infamous figure of British art turns his unflinching eye firmly on himself.
Jul 20, 2011 · Freud painted many portraits of famous people throughout his career. The Queen is perhaps his most powerful and globally recognizable subject. While Freud normally worked large, this composition measures approximately nine and a half by six inches, making it one of his smallest paintings.
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- December 8, 1922
- Berlin, Germany
- July 20, 2011
Jun 6, 2024 · Freud’s many portraits of his friends and associates and of members of the British gentry extended a grand English tradition. His series of paintings and drawings of his mother, begun in 1970 and continuing until the day after her death in 1989, are particularly frank and dramatic studies of intimate life passages.
Freud’s self-portraits span 60 years. He painted his first in 1943 and his last in the early 2000s. Their style changed a great deal over this time. He always found painting self-portraits challenging. This is the last of three self-portraits painted one after the other in 1963.
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Sep 2, 2019 · Lucian Freud in five self-portraits. By Martin Gayford. Published on 2 September 2019. From the focused, linear depictions in his early works, to the triumphant naked portrait painted at the top of his game, Lucian Freud’s self-portraits are a testament to the artist’s indefatigable journey.
