Lucian Freud: A Closer Look

Freud, Lucian; Michael Juul Holm, Anders Kold et al.

ISBN 10: 8792877435 / ISBN 13: 9788792877437

Published by Humlebaek : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015

About this Item

Green cloth covered boards (hardcover), 110 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Fine/as new.

Seller Inventory # JHJ_2022_04_26_1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lucian Freud: A Closer Look
• Publisher: Humlebaek : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8792877435
• ISBN 13: 9788792877437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • British Art

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Synopsis

This catalogue focuses on the artist’s graphic production from the period after 1982 with works from the UBS Art Collection. Freud’s (1922–2011) portraits―often of the same subjects he painted―manage to encompass his own psyche, the models’ responses and our own reactions. "My work," he said, "is purely autobiographical. It is about myself and my surroundings." In an etching, the subject is scored into a metal plate covered with a wax mixture, which, after immersion in an acid bath, exposes the scorings, which are left as black lines in the finished print. Readers get even closer access to this involved and nontraditional printmaking process, as the volume is supplemented with ten stages of a print from a private collection in England.