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Lucian Freud: Portraits is an analysis of the artist as seen through the eyes of those who have been best placed to study him; his sitters. Over a period of two years film-maker Jake Auerbach and Freud’s biographer, William Feaver filmed many of Freud’s subjects, ranging from the late Duke of Devonshire and the now Dowager Duchess of ...
20 de jul. de 2011 · BestellungReproduktion. Lucian Freud (* 8. Dezember 1922 in Berlin; † 20. Juli 2011 in London) war ein britischer Maler. Er war einer der bedeutendsten Porträtmaler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Kunstkritiker Robert Hughes bezeichnete ihn 2004 als „Großbritanniens größten lebenden Maler“. Lucian Freud war einer von drei Söhnen des ...
Freud painted many portraits of Kitty during their brief marriage, which ended in divorce in 1952, due to his chronic infidelities. A weariness in the sitter's expression, the deep hollows under her eyes and the self-supporting gesture of the hand under the left breast hint at her discontent, despite this moment of calm.
The mid- to late-1950s marked a decisive shift in Freud’s paintings, when he moved away from stark, flattened portraits and turned to fleshy explorations of the human face. This was partly due to his friendship with the artist Francis Bacon, whom he met in the late 1940s and whose thick, loose style of painting motivated Freud to change direction.
Lucian Freud (1922 –2011) was a British painter who is widely celebrated for his portraits. A deeply private man, the people in Freud’s paintings were often those closest to him – his friends, family, fellow artists and lovers. Freud’s portraits are an intensely personal record of the time spent with those who he knew best.
24 de feb. de 2023 · Lucian Freud. (1922-2011), Artist. Sitter in 66 portraits. Artist of 6 portraits. Grandson of Sigmund Freud, he was born in Berlin and moved to England aged ten in 1933. He studied at the Central School of Art and the East Anglian School of Painting (1939-42) under Cedric Morris. His first solo exhibition was at the Lefevre gallery, London in 1944.
1 de jul. de 2012 · Lucian Freud is widely considered the greatest portrait painter of the twentieth century. His visceral renderings of people from all walks of life have a painterly and psychological drama that is unparalleled in contemporary art. For much of a century—from the late 1940s until his recent death in July 2011—Freud made the living human presence his subject.
