Lucian Freud's Sketchbooks

Lucian Freud's Sketchbooks
Author:
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300223730

Presented here is a selection of previously unpublished images from Freud's sketchbooks, now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.

The Arts Dividend

The Arts Dividend
Author: Darren Henley
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Arts and society
ISBN: 9781783962778

An illuminating account of the importance of public investment in arts and culture

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud
Author: David Dawson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Painting, British
ISBN: 9781912520060

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.

The Painter's Progress

The Painter's Progress
Author: David Dawson
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN: 9780224097123

"For nearly twenty years David Dawson was Lucian Freud's assistant, companion, and model. Freud moved in rarefied, powerful circles and was tenacious about protecting his privacy. He also carefully avoided distraction. With few exceptions, he wanted only those he knew well, like the late Bruce Bernard, to photograph him. David Dawson, however, was in a unique position, and as Freud became comfortable in the presence of Dawson's camera, photographing became part of the daily ritual of the studio. These photographs reveal in a most intimate way the subjects and the stages of paintings in progress. Few artists, if any, have had their lives and their work recorded over such a length of time. Despite Freud's sense of privacy, his circle was wide. Among those who regularly visited Freud were figures from the art world, including art historian John Richardson, and painters David Hockney, and Frank Auerbach, along with model Kate Moss and friends such as the Duke of Beaufort. The book begins in Freud's old studio in Holland Park and then records the artist in his eighteenth-century house in Kensington, the first floor of which was his final studio. Dawson also photographed Freud on his visits to look at masterpieces in various museums in New York, Amsterdam and Madrid. The book ends with views of the rooms in which Freud's own extraordinary collection of paintings was hung. It is the only record of the house itself before the dispersal of the art on his death, but ultimately, the photographs create an intimate portrait of the man. The final images in this book are of the hanging of Freud's work in his posthumous London exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Haunting and fascinating, this is a revelatory document about one of our most important and influential painters"--Provided by publisher

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud
Author: Lucian Freud
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Portrait painting
ISBN: 9781855144415

"'Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait, even if it's only a chair.' Portraits were central to the work of Lucian Freud. Working only from life, the artist claimed 'I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me.' Lucian Freud Portraits surveys his portraits and figure paintings from across his long career. Drawing together the finest portraits from public and private collections around the world, the book explores Freud's stylistic development and technical virtuosity. A series of previously unpublished interviews conducted by Michael Auping between May 2009 and January 2011 reveal the artist's thoughts on the complex relationship between artist and sitter, the particular challenges of painting nudes and self-portraits, and his views on other painters he admired. Freud's psychological portraits are often imbued with a mood of alienation. A private man, the artist's close relationship with his sitters was played out behind the closed door of the studio. Frequently there is the sense of an emotionally charged drama unfolding, but his subjects remain elusive. Sitters represented in the book include family members, particularly his mother, Lucie, and artists such as Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and David Hockney. In the early 1990s Freud produced a series of monumental paintings of the performance artist Leigh Bowery and Bowery's friend Sue Tilley, the 'benefits supervisor', examples of which are reproduced in this book."--Publisher description.

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Etching, English
ISBN: 9780983505983

Lucian Freud: Etchings provides an in-depth look at the prints Freud made after returning to the medium in the 1980s. The exhibition will examine the artist?s powerful and detailed depictions of the human form and the psychological conditions that characterized his oeuvre.

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville
Author: Jenny Saville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1999
Genre: Artists
ISBN:

Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2 October - 18 December 1999.

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud
Author: Lucian Freud
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1993
Genre:
ISBN: 9780786011186

The Portrait Sketchbook

The Portrait Sketchbook
Author: Ilex
Publisher: Ilex Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781781575031

With centuries of artistic wisdom, The Portrait Sketchbook offers everything you need to train your eye, hand and mind. Explore and experience the creative processes of iconic craftsmen to realise your own original style; quickly sketch passers-by with Da Vinci; create a ghostlike form with Seurat; master Ingres's evocation of the most kissable lips; and adopt Lucian Freud's liberating directness. Featuring 20 works and a host of helpful prompts from leading artists, critics and art historians - as well as plenty of blank space to practice in - the book will guide you to a fresh understanding of the tools, materials and skills necessary to master this most personal subject.

Life Above Everything

Life Above Everything
Author: Christina Kennedy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN: 9781909792241

Life above Everything is a major exhibition that brings together the work of two acknowledged masters, Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats. Exploring the affinities and interconnections between these two artists, this exhibition draws the work of these two stubbornly individual painters into dialogue, placing them side-by-side for the first time in 70 years. While Lucian Freud's work has been exhibited in the past in group exhibitions alongside other artists from the 'School of London', Life above Everything is one of the few exhibitions to date in which Freud has been shown with a single other artist. Freud's interest in Yeats is little discussed, but he had a lifelong interest in the Irish painter's work, holding a deep admiration for its force and energy. He did not cite Yeats as an 'influence' but instead seems to have felt a common purpose with his originality and independence, his continuous searching observation, and his sense of the connection between painting and life. A pen and ink drawing by Yeats, The Dancing Stevedores (c.1900), hung beside Freud's bed for over 20 years. Life Above Everything will include a substantial number of oil paintings by both artists, 33 by Freud and 24 by Yeats, as well as a range of works on paper, sourced from public and private collections internationally. There are five new loans of work by Freud to the IMMA Collection: Freud Project including important early works such as Girl with Roses (1947-48), Girl with Beret (1951) and Boat, Connemara (1951). Significant loans of works by Yeats include The Bus by the River (1927), People in a Street (c.1935), A Dancer (Rosses Point, Sligo) (1921), as well as From the Tram Top (c. 1925), which features one of Yeats's rare cameos in his own work. Unique to this exhibition is the inclusion of seven paintings by Jack B. Yeats which Freud selected for a close friend, advising him on works to acquire at auction or through the relevant gallery. We are delighted to be able to present these seven paintings, 'approved' by Freud, as a special grouping of Yeats's works within this exhibition. David Dawson, artist and Freud's long-time studio assistant, has assisted in the selection for this exhibition, bringing to the project a unique, intimate knowledge of Freud's interest in Yeats.--IMMA website.