Lucian Freud

Author : Giovanni Aloi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791385334

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Lucian Freud Herbarium by Giovanni Aloi Pdf

As intimate and meticulous as his revered portraits, Lucian Freud's magnificent paintings and drawings of plant life are gathered for the first time in book form. Lucian Freud's portraits are known for their spectacular detail and unflinching gaze. Although Freud brought the same qualities to his paintings and drawings of plants, flowers, and landscapes, these are largely unknown. This elegant book shows how working with plants emboldened Freud to experiment with style and composition. Reproduced in sumptuous plates that allow readers to indulge in exquisite detail, seventy-five works--including Two Plants, Bananas, Cyclamen, The Painter's Garden, and Interior at Paddington--reveal Freud's singular approach to plant life. Readers unfamiliar with this aspect of Freud's work will find many similarities to his portraits--earthy palettes, unconventional rawness, and assiduous attention to detail. From the delicate realism of the cyclamens' petals to the bold brushstrokes that immortalize his overgrown garden, readers will appreciate Freud's ability to portray plants in new and personal ways. Comparative illustrations from throughout art history accompany essays on the history of plants in art and an appreciation of Freud's oeuvre. This monograph is a tremendous contribution to Freud's legacy, one that will enrich his admirers' discernment while also introducing his thoroughly original depictions of plants to a new audience.

Author : Mark Holborn
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714877530

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Lucian Freud: A Life by Mark Holborn Pdf

A breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraits This unprecedented look at the private life of Lucian Freud begins with childhood snapshots and ends with rarely seen photographs made in his studio in the last weeks of his life. In between, the life of one of the most important artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is vividly documented - through family photos, in images of the painter in his studio with some of his most celebrated sitters, and in portraits by his peers, first among them Francis Bacon.

Author : William Feaver
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525657675

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The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame by William Feaver Pdf

The first biography of the epic life of one of the most important, enigmatic and private artists of the 20th century. Drawn from almost 40 years of conversations with the artist, letters and papers, it is a major work written by a well-known British art critic. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is one of the most influential figurative painters of the 20th century. His paintings are in every major museum and many private collections here and abroad. William Feaver's daily calls from 1973 until Freud died in 2011, as well as interviews with family and friends were crucial sources for this book. Freud had ferocious energy, worked day and night but his circle was broad including not just other well-known artists but writers, bluebloods, royals in England and Europe, drag queens, fashion models gamblers, bookies and gangsters like the Kray twins. Fierce, rebellious, charismatic, extremely guarded about his life, he was witty, mischievous and a womanizer. This brilliantly researched book begins with the Freuds' life in Berlin, the rise of Hitler and the family's escape to London in 1933 when Lucian was 10. Sigmund Freud was his grandfather and Ernst, his father was an architect. In London in his twenties, his first solo show was in 1944 at the Lefevre Gallery. Around this time, Stephen Spender introduced him to Virginia Woolf; at night he was taking Pauline Tennant to the Gargoyle Club, owned by her father and frequented by Dylan Thomas; he was also meeting Sonia Orwell, Cecil Beaton, Auden, Patrick Leigh-Fermor and the Aly Khan, and his muse was a married femme fatale, 13 years older, Lorna Wishart. But it was Francis Bacon who would become his most important influence and the painters Frank Auerbach and David Hockney, close friends. This is an extremely intimate, lively and rich portrait of the artist, full of gossip and stories recounted by Freud to Feaver about people, encounters, and work. Freud's art was his life—"my work is purely autobiographical"—and he usually painted only family, friends, lovers, children, though there were exceptions like the famous small portrait of the Queen. With his later portraits, the subjects were often nude, names were never given and sittings could take up to 16 months, each session lasting five hours but subjects were rarely bored as Freud was a great raconteur and mimic. This book is a major achievement, a tour de force that reveals the details of the life and innermost thoughts of the greatest portrait painter of our time. Volume I has 41 black and white integrated images, and 2 eight-page color inserts.

Author : David Dawson,Joseph Leo Koerner,Jasper Sharp,Sebastian Smee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Painting, British
ISBN : 1912520060

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Lucian Freud by David Dawson,Joseph Leo Koerner,Jasper Sharp,Sebastian Smee Pdf

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them "revealing, telling, believable ... really shameless." It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's self-portraits chart his biography and give us an insight into the development of his style. These paintings provide the viewer with a constant reminder of the artist's overwhelming presence, whether he is confronting the viewer directly or only present as a shadow or in a reflection. Freud's exploration of the self-portrait is unexpected and wide-ranging. In this volume, essays by leading authorities, including those who knew him, explore Freud's life and work, and analyze the importance of self-portraiture in his practice.

Author : Martin Gayford
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500770795

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Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford Pdf

“An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art.” —ARTnews Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their encounters takes the reader into that most private place, the artist’s studio, and to the heart of the working methods of this modern master—both technical and subtly psychological. From this emerges an understanding of what a portrait is, but something else is also created: a portrait, in words, of Freud himself. This is not a biography, but a series of close-ups: the artist at work and in conversation at restaurants, in taxis, and in his studio. It takes one into the company of the painter for whom Picasso, Giacometti, and Francis Bacon were friends and contemporaries, as were writers such as George Orwell and W. H. Auden. The book is illustrated with many of Lucian Freud’s other works, telling photographs taken by David Dawson of Freud in his studio, and images by such great artists of the past as van Gogh and Titian who are discussed by Freud and Gayford. Full of wry observations, the book reveals the inside story of how it feels to pose for a remarkable artist and become a work of art.

Author : Lucian Freud,William Feaver,Mark Lawrence Rosenthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drawing, British
ISBN : 0956990428

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Lucian Freud Drawings by Lucian Freud,William Feaver,Mark Lawrence Rosenthal Pdf

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Blain/Southern, London, 17 Feb-5 Apr 2012, and Acquavella Galleries, New York, 1 May-9 Jun 2012.

Author : Lucian Freud,Anders Kold
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Prints
ISBN : 3775743111

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Lucian Freud by Lucian Freud,Anders Kold Pdf

Lucian Freud's artwork is both intimate and raw. The viewer is confronted with corpulent figures, nudity, and glimpses into the psyches of those he portrayed. The painter, who died in 2011, was the grandchild of psychiatrist Sigmund Freud.The UBS Art Collection contains the majority of etchings from Freud's last creative phase, as well as one watercolor and two paintings--a total of fifty-four works of the highest quality that are simultaneously delicate and bold. The fact that the exhibition is held in Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau is of particular significance, as the city was Freud's birthplace, from which he was forced to flee with his parents in 1933. With the help of the UBS Art Collection, it is as if the artist now returns home. Exhibition: 22.7.-22.10.2017, Martin-Gropius-Bau

Author : Lucian Freud,Matthew Marks Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822037178167

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Lucian Freud by Lucian Freud,Matthew Marks Gallery Pdf

Author : Lucian Freud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1739206002

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Lucian Freud by Lucian Freud Pdf

A short catalogue of the small but perfectly formed Freud exhibition at the Garden Museum. Drawings, oil sketches, paintings, of flowers, leaves, his Zimmerlinde, tatty buddleia-filled back gardens, etc. Excellent notes and illustrations; with conversational contributions by David Dawson and Annie Freud.

Author : David Dawson,Philippe de Montebello
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847866847

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Lucian Freud by David Dawson,Philippe de Montebello Pdf

Intimate portraits from one of the most innovative figurative artists of the twentieth century and the master of painted flesh. Curated by the artist's longtime studio assistant and friend, David Dawson, this important volume features twenty major and rarely seen paintings by Lucian Freud (1922-2011). The book begins with works from 1990, when Freud began painting the performance artist Leigh Bowery: these large-scale portraits of Bowery ushered in a new sense of monumentality in the artist's oeuvre. Inspired by Bowery's impressive physique, Freud began working on a larger scale, which emphasized the physical presence of his subjects. Despite their grand scale, Freud's subjects are still depicted with a sense of intimacy, penetrating honesty, and psychological depth. The naked body is a subject that has special significance in Freud's oeuvre. Nakedness was a way for Freud to get a more truthful portrait. Freud's probing oils get fresh consideration in this monograph and Dawson provides insights and stories about Freud working on these portraits, giving an intriguing behind-the-scenes look at the life of a contemporary master of representational art.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300223736

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Lucian Freud's Sketchbooks by Anonim Pdf

Presented here is a selection of previously unpublished images from Freud's sketchbooks, now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Author : Celia Paul
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681374833

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Self-Portrait by Celia Paul Pdf

A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure—the painter Lucian Freud—and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art. One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. Self-Portrait tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son; of the challenges of motherhood, the unresolvable conflict between caring for a child and remaining commited to art; of the "invisible skeins between people," the profound familial connections Paul communicates through her paintings of her mother and sisters; and finally, of the mystical presence in her own solitary vision of the world around her. Self-Portrait is a powerful, liberating evocation of a life and of a life-long dedication to art.

Author : Phoebe Hoban
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780544114593

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Lucian Freud by Phoebe Hoban Pdf

A riveting life of the brilliant British artist, one of the greatest figurative painters of the 20th century.

Author : Geordie Greig
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374709242

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Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig Pdf

An insider's account—the first of its kind—of the thoroughly unconventional life of one of the twentieth century's most shockingly original painters Lucian Freud's paintings are instantly recognizable: often shocking and disturbing, his portraits convey a profound yet compelling sense of discomfort. Freud was twice married and the father of at least a dozen children, and his numerous relationships with women were the subject of much gossip—but the man himself remained a mystery. An intensely private individual (during his lifetime he prevented two planned biographies from being published), Freud's life, as well as his art, invites questions that have had no answer—until now. In Breakfast with Lucian, Geordie Greig, one of a few close friends who regularly had breakfast with the painter during the last years of his life, tells an insider's account—accessible, engaging, revealing—of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating, enigmatic, and controversial artists. Greig, who has studied his subject's work at length, unravels the tangled thread of a life lived on Freud's own uncompromising terms. Based on private conversations in which Freud held forth on everything from first love to gambling debts to the paintings of Velázquez, and informed by interviews with friends, lovers, and some of the artist's children who have never before spoken publicly about their relationships with the painter, this is a deeply personal memoir that is illuminated by a keen appreciation of Freud's art. Fresh, funny, and ultimately profound, Breakfast with Lucian is an essential portrait—one worthy of one of the greatest painters of our time. An NPR Best Book of 2013

Author : Lucian Freud,Nicholas Penny,Ashmolean Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drawing
ISBN : UCSC:32106013739617

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Lucian Freud by Lucian Freud,Nicholas Penny,Ashmolean Museum Pdf