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The mid- to late-1950s marked a decisive shift in Freud’s paintings, when he moved away from stark, flattened portraits and turned to fleshy explorations of the human face. This was partly due to his friendship with the artist Francis Bacon, whom he met in the late 1940s and whose thick, loose style of painting motivated Freud to change direction.
Lucian Freud stated that “my idea of portraiture came from dissatisfaction with portraits that resembled people. I would wish my portraits to be of people, not like them.” Such a confession denotes a certain amount of philosophical anguish as it presupposes that the artist, when painting somebody, is to an extent condemning them.
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 ...
Out of print. 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.
20 lug 2011 · BestellungReproduktion. Lucian Freud (* 8. Dezember 1922 in Berlin; † 20. Juli 2011 in London) war ein britischer Maler. Er war einer der bedeutendsten Porträtmaler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Kunstkritiker Robert Hughes bezeichnete ihn 2004 als „Großbritanniens größten lebenden Maler“. Lucian Freud war einer von drei Söhnen des ...
Lucian Freud (1922 –2011) was a British painter who is widely celebrated for his portraits. A deeply private man, the people in Freud’s paintings were often those closest to him – his friends, family, fellow artists and lovers. Freud’s portraits are an intensely personal record of the time spent with those who he knew best.
8 dic 2023 · Lucian Freud. (1922-2011), Artist. Sitter in 65 portraits. 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.
