Lucian Freud Portraits - by Sarah Howgate (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"For me, the paint <i>is</i> the person."--Lucian Freud<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>"For me, the paint <i>is</i> the person."--Lucian Freud</b> <p/> 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 actually 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 public and private collections around the world, the book explores the stylistic development and remarkable technical virtuosity of an artist regarded as one of the most innovative figurative painters the medium has known.</p><p>Freud's chosen subjects were often his intimates--family members, friends, and artistic colleagues such as Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Leigh Bowery, and David Hockney. Freud was 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.</p><p>An essential book for 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A vital, robust account of the artist's most important subjects: people from all walks of life rendered with unflinching psychological and physical realism."--K. Rhodes, <i>Choice</i>--K. Rhodes "Choice"<br><br>"Often hailed as the finest portrait artist of the past century, Freud's probing oils and etchings get fresh consideration in [this] monograph filled with 200 color images, essays and interviews."--<i>New Orleans Times-Picayune</i>-- "New Orleans Times-Picayune"<br><br>"Remarkable . . . brings together the portraits of one of the masters of the form."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i>-- "Publishers Weekly"<br><br>"Splendid."--<i>Wall Street Journal</i>-- "Wall Street Journal"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Sarah Howgate</b> is curator of contemporary portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and author of <i>David Hockney Portraits</i> (Yale). <b>Michael Auping</b> is chief curator at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth and coauthor of<i> Ed Ruscha: Road Tested</i>. <b>John Richardson</b> is author of the three-volume biography <i>A Life of Picasso</i>.
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