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Jul 20, 2011 · Reflection (Self-portrait) Freud's self-portraits, an enterprise to which he returned frequently over the years, offer direct insight into his psyche. This is among the most famous, painted in 1985 when the artist was sixty-three years old. In contrast to the explicit nudity of his other portraits, here nudity is implicit (bare from the ...
Lucian Freud: Portraits is an analysis of the artist as seen through the eyes of those who have been best placed to study him; his sitters. Over a period of two years film-maker Jake Auerbach and Freud’s biographer, William Feaver filmed many of Freud’s subjects, ranging from the late Duke of Devonshire and the now Dowager Duchess of ...
A modern master turns his unflinching eye on himself. “Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits” charts the artistic development of the renowned British figurative painter through the unique lens of self-portraiture. Best known for his portraits of his acquaintances, Lucian Freud (1922–2011) painted his subjects with compositional ingenuity ...
Dated in 1976‒77, Last Portrait, the first painting by Freud to enter the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, shows the same model depicted in the Nude Portrait in the Tate collection. The unfinished nature of the work sheds light on how it was painted. The composition was lightly sketched in pencil on the white canvas and the paint was applied ...
by Lucian Freud. oil on canvas, 1963. 12 in. x 9 7/8 in. (305 mm x 251 mm) NPG 5205. The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images. On display in Room 26 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery. Lucian Freud (1922–2011) was one of the most important and influential artists of his generation. He was also one of the most celebrated portrait ...
The most ambitious exhibition of the work of Lucian Freud for ten years will open at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in February 2012. With over 100 paintings and works on paper loaned from museums and private collections throughout the world, Lucian Freud Portraits is the result of many years’ planning by the Gallery in close partnership with the late Lucian Freud.
Lucian Freud was one of the world’s greatest realist painters. This new, authoritative survey of Freud’s portraits and figure paintings explores his work across seven decades, from the early 1940s to his death in 2011. The book features over 130 paintings, drawings and etchings selected in close collaboration with the artist.
