Lucian Freud

Feaver, William

ISBN 10: 0847829529 / ISBN 13: 9780847829521

Published by Rizzoli Publications Inc., New York, 2007

About this Item

Black hardcover with dustjacket in slipcase. Condition: Fine, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fine, with just the very faintest hint of shelfwear. Slipcase is also in fine condition. 488pp. 362 colour plates. a heavy book, will require extra shipping charges if to be sent outside UK. At the date of publication, this was the most comprehensive overview of 70 years of work by Lucian Freud (1922-2011) including many works not previously reproduced. The book includes not only Freuds paintings but also his sketches, woodcuts, and powerful etchings. While the bulk of his paintings are female nudes, his cityscapes, plant studies, and interiors, executed in his distinctive muted palette and visible brushwork, are included too.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lucian Freud
• Publisher: Rizzoli Publications Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847829529
• ISBN 13: 9780847829521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • British Art (20th/21st Century)

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Synopsis

This volume, with more than 400 reproductions, will be the most comprehensive publication to date on Lucian Freud, covering a span of seventy years and including many works not previously reproduced. The result is a corpus of great works that reveal him to be the premier heir today of Rembrandt, Courbet, and Cézanne. The book includes not only Freud’s paintings but also his sketches, woodcuts, and powerful etchings. While the bulk of his paintings are female nudes, his cityscapes, plant studies, and interiors, executed in his distinctive muted palette and visible brushwork, are all included. Freud, who has lived in London ever since his family left Berlin in 1933 when he was ten, has achieved preeminence through his ruthless perception of the human form. His importance has long been recognized in England, but his present super-celebrity status dates from a retrospective at the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., in 1987. William Feaver, painter and for many years art critic for The Observer, provides a unique account of Freud’s preoccupations and achievement. Startling, moving, profoundly entertaining, the book lives up to Freud’s advice to students when getting them to paint self-portraits: “To try and make it the most revealing, telling, and believable object. Something really shameless, you know.”

About the Author

William Feaver is a painter, critic, writer, and curator. He is the author of Freud’s previous exhibition catalogue, Lucian Freud (Tate, 2002). He has curated the following exhibitions: Lucian Freud (2002 Tate and tour), Freud (2005 Museo Correr, Venice), and Freud & Auerbach (2006 V&A).