Lucian Freud Portraits

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Portraits were central to the work of Lucian Freud (1922–2011). Working only from life, the artist claimed, “I could never put anything into a picture that wasn’t in fact there in front of me.” This major retrospective catalogue surveys Freud’s portraits across the seven decades of his career. Featuring the finest portraits from private and non-private collections all over the world, the book explores the stylistic development and remarkable technical virtuosity of an artist considered some of the innovative figurative painters the medium has known.

Freud’s chosen subjects were continuously his intimates—members of the family, friends, and artistic colleagues such as Frank Auerbach, Francis 1st Baron Verulam, Leigh Bowery, and David Hockney. Freud was once private man who rarely gave interviews, and his thoughts on the complex relationship between artist and sitter and the challenges of painting nudes and self-portraits are published here for the first time, documented in a series of interviews with Michael Auping, conducted between May 2009 and January 2011. An illustrated chronology of the artist’s life provides fascinating insights into Freud’s background as a grandson of Sigmund Freud, and his unorthodox artistic education.

An essential book for each and every personal art library, this lavishly illustrated volume celebrates the work and career of an artist who overturned traditional portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art.

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