
Lucian Freud
Portraits
Sarah Howgate(Editor)
Five Continents Editions (Publisher)
Published on 27. October 2022
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-88-7439-622-1 (ISBN)
Description
Portraits are at the heart of Lucian Freud's oeuvre. This study of Freud's portraits, first published in English in 2012, surveys seven decades of activity, from the early 1940s to the artist's death in 2011 and features 130 paintings, drawings, and engravings from public and private collections. A series of previously unpublished interviews with Michael Auping held between May 2009 and January 2011 reveal Freud's opinions on the complex relationship the artist builds with his model, on the difficulty of painting nudes and self-portraits, and on the painters he admired most. He was personally reserved, but established a very close relationship with his sitters behind the closed doors of his studio. The many subjects Freud portrayed include members of his family, especially his mother Lucy, and other artists, such as Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, and David Hockney.
Text in French.
Text in French.
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Language
French
Place of publication
Milan
Italy
Product notice
With dust jacket
Illustrations
200 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 295 mm
Width: 227 mm
Weight
1675 gr
ISBN-13
978-88-7439-622-1 (9788874396221)
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Sarah Howgate is a curator in the Contemporary Portraits Department of the National Portrait Gallery, in London. She has written extensively on portraits, with contributions to the exhibition catalogues David Hockney Portraits (2006), and Lucian Freud: Painting People (2012)
Michael Auping is head curator at Fort Worth Modern Art Museum. He is well known as a curator and is an expert in Abstract Expressionism. His conversations with artists have been assembled and published under the title Interviews and Outtakes.
John Richardson was a friend of Lucian Freud and the author of A Life of Picasso.
Michael Auping is head curator at Fort Worth Modern Art Museum. He is well known as a curator and is an expert in Abstract Expressionism. His conversations with artists have been assembled and published under the title Interviews and Outtakes.
John Richardson was a friend of Lucian Freud and the author of A Life of Picasso.
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