Yale University Press | ISBN:0300182562 | File Type: PDF, 95 pages | File size: 33.Mb | Apr. 17th, 2012
Artist Monographs: Painting People This beautifly illustrated book features fifty of Lucian Freud s portraits and figure paintings offering an excellent introduction to the work of one of the most innovative figurative artists of the 20th century Arranged chronologically and ranging over seven decades from the early 1940s to Freud s death in Jy of 2011 the book features Freud s portraits of subjects including Kitty Garman and Lady Caroline Blackwood both of whom were married to the artist his mother Lucie Freud friends and colleagues Martin Gayford and David Hockney and more formal portraits of subjects including Andrew arker Bowles and Baron Thyssen Bornemisza In his essay critic Martin Gayford discusses Freud s standing as an artist and his place in art history and offers personal insights into the artist s life and approach to portraiture Artist and longtime friend David Hockney gives a revealing account of his own experience sitting for a portrait by Freud An illustrated chronology and previously unpublished documentary photographs place Freud s works within the context of his remarkable biography An ideal introduction to Freud s work Lucian Freud ainting eople offers an excellent survey of an artist considered one of the world s greatest realist painters
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