Lucian Freud

by FEAVER, WILLIAM

• ISBN13: 9780847829521
• ISBN10: 0847829529
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-06
• Publisher: Rizzoli

Summary

This volume, with more than 400 reproductions, will be the most comprehensive publication to date on Lucian Freud, covering a span of seventy years and including many works not previously reproduced. The result is a corpus of great works that reveal him to be the premier heir today of Rembrandt, Courbet, and Cezanne. The book includes not only Freud's paintings but also his sketches, woodcuts, and powerful etchings. While the bulk of his paintings are female nudes, his cityscapes, plant studies, and interiors, executed in his distinctive muted palette and visible brushwork, are all included. Freud, who has lived in London ever since his family left Berlin in 1933 when he was ten, has achieved preeminence through his ruthless perception of the human form. His importance has long been recognized in England, but his present super-celebrity status dates from a retrospective at the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., in 1987. William Feaver, painter and for many years art critic for The Observer, provides a unique account of Freud's preoccupations and achievement. Startling, moving, profoundly entertaining, the book lives up to Freud's advice to students when getting them to paint self-portraits: "To try and make it the most revealing, telling, and believable object. Something really shameless, you know."

Author Biography

William Feaver is a painter, critic, writer, and curator. He is the author of Freud’s previous exhibition catalogue, Lucian Freud (Tate, 2002). He has curated the following exhibitions: Lucian Freud (2002 Tate and tour), Freud (2005 Museo Correr, Venice), and Freud & Auerbach (2006 V&A).

Table of Contents

Essay	p. 7
Plates	p. 39
Lucian Freud and William Feaver: Conversation, November 1992	p. 319
Lucian Freud and William Feaver: Conversation, April 1998	p. 371
Lucian Freud and William Feaver: Conversation on John Constable, November 2001	p. 401
Lucian Freud and William Feaver: Conversation, February 2007	p. 457
List of Illustrations	p. 469
Chronology	p. 483
Bibliography	p. 485
Acknowledgments	p. 488
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