Lucian Freud - Painting people

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'I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me.'
Regarded by many as one of the world's greatest realist painters, Lucian Freud worked only from life, and is renowned for his portraits and paintings of the human form. Lucian Freud: Painting People features a selection of the artist's finest portraits and figure paintings arranged chronologically, from the early 1940s to his death in 2011.
This book brings together more than fifty of Freud's portraits from public and private collections around the world to demonstrate his technical virtuosity and stylistic development over a remarkable seven-decade career.
A private man, Freud's close relationship with his sitters was played out behind the closed door of the studio. Among those represented in this book are members of his family - particularly his mother, Lucie - and artists such as Frank Auerbach, John Minton and David Hockney. It also includes the performance artist Leigh Bowery and... Tovább

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'I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me.'
Regarded by many as one of the world's greatest realist painters, Lucian Freud worked only from life, and is renowned for his portraits and paintings of the human form. Lucian Freud: Painting People features a selection of the artist's finest portraits and figure paintings arranged chronologically, from the early 1940s to his death in 2011.
This book brings together more than fifty of Freud's portraits from public and private collections around the world to demonstrate his technical virtuosity and stylistic development over a remarkable seven-decade career.
A private man, Freud's close relationship with his sitters was played out behind the closed door of the studio. Among those represented in this book are members of his family - particularly his mother, Lucie - and artists such as Frank Auerbach, John Minton and David Hockney. It also includes the performance artist Leigh Bowery and Bowery's friend Sue Tilley, immortalised by Freud in a series of paintings in the 1990s.
In her foreword, Sarah Howgate introduces Freud's portraits and the artist's approach to his work. Art critic Martin Gayford looks at Freud's standing as an artist and his place in art history, and offers personal insights into his life and portraiture. World-renowned artist David Hockney gives a revealing account of his own experience of sitting for a portrait by his friend and fellow artist.
The portraits and essays are complemented by a chronology illustrated with documentary images and some previously unpublished informal photographs, which set Freud's work in the context of his life. Vissza