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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
The National Portrait Gallery holds the archive of Lucian Freud (1922-2011), one of Britain’s greatest portrait artists. Freud’s extraordinary archive includes childhood drawings, letters, and 47 sketchbooks containing over 600 drawings. See below for more details:
255 p. : 30 cm. Accompanies the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 9 February to 28 May 2012 and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, from 2 July to 28 October 2012. Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-243) and index.
Artist of 6 portraits. Grandson of Sigmund Freud, he was born in Berlin and moved to England aged ten in 1933. He studied at the Central School of Art and the East Anglian School of Painting (1939-42) under Cedric Morris. His first solo exhibition was at the Lefevre gallery, London in 1944.
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.
The subjects are often naked and the scrutiny with which Freud consistently portrayed the human body distinguished him amongst fellow artists in the twentieth century. In this painting, one of several self-portraits, Freud turned this uncompromising gaze upon himself.
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Jul 20, 2011 · One of the late twentieth-century's most celebrated portraitists, Freud painted only those closest to him: friends and family, wives and mistresses, and, last but not least, himself. His insightful series of self-portraits spanned over six decades.
