Lucian Freud: A Closer Look - Works from the UBS Art Collection

Stephen McCoubrey; Preface, Poul Erik Tøjner; Foreword, Essays By Anders Kold and Richard Cork

ISBN 10: 8792877435 / ISBN 13: 9788792877437

Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art - Strandberg Publishing, Denmark, 2015

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Moss green cloth blocked with pale blue lettering. Works from the UPS art collection.112 pages. 30 plates. 8.75 X 9.75 inches. Fine copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lucian Freud: A Closer Look - Works from the UBS Art Collection
• Publisher: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art - Strandberg Publishing, Denmark
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8792877435
• ISBN 13: 9788792877437
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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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.