Lucian Freud : Works on Paper

Nicholas Penny, Robert Flynn Johnson ; Lucian Freud

Published by Thames & Hudson 1988

About this Item

Hardcover, 128 pages, ENG, 285 x 260 mm, dustjacket, book is as new, with illustrations in color and b/w, here and there some texts underlined with pencil, better that than with a ballpoint pen, apart from that, the book is really as new. ISBN 9780500091852. Lucian Michael Freud ( 8 December 1922 - 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud got his first name "Lucian" from his mother in memory of the ancient writer Lucian of Samosata. His family moved to England in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942 to 1943 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He served at sea with the British Merchant Navy during the Second World War. His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism. Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies, and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models 1050 g.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lucian Freud : Works on Paper
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson 1988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: The Artist
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included