This thought-provoking exhibition attempts to shift our attention away from the myths that surround Freud and on to his achievements as a painter
National Gallery, London 1 Oct...
This exhibition of self-portraits across seven decades shows the artist at his most vulnerable
Royal Academy of Arts, London 27 October 2019 – 26 January 2020
by BETH WILLIAM...
Blain Southern, London 17 February–5 April 2012
Acquavella Galleries, New York 30 April–9 June 2012
by Dr JANET McKENZIE
To commemorate the life and career of Lucian Freud...
I sometimes leave exhibitions with a sense of anti-climax: expectations are often unfulfilled or disappointed. One might even feel a diminished assessment of the artist. Against ...
... allowing viewers to feel fully immersed in the colour. This same effect is felt standing in front of a Saville.
Another artist who comes to mind is, of course, Lucian Fr...
... Paul was no longer able to climb the 80 steps to Celia’s studio (in her flat opposite the British Museum, bought for her in the early 1980s by her then lover, Lucian Fre...
... about postwar abstraction, and in the British context, the figurative painters David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach hold more non-specialist currency. Intentiona...
... in common with Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud but without the edge of cruelty and despair, and with more beauty and hope.
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In 2004, Shamma won fourth prize ...
... in the tradition of paintings like those of Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud, both of whom had an influence on me as a student.
LW: All the paintings in this show have chil...
... found Paul Gauguin difficult – I’ve always felt he was exploiting these available young women in a very shocking way. And some of Lucian Freud seems to me to be like t...
... century. In a sparsely populated space, visceral representations of the self by Lucian Freud (1922-2011) and Francis Bacon (1909-92) sit alongside a distorted portrait of ...
... (mid-19th century), where the old hound is smoking a pipe, more than a little too twee.
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Moving into the 20th century, there are a couple of heartfelt painting...
... to modern eyes, his sensuous paint handling bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Lucian Freud.
The dearth of female artists here is surprising. The period co...
... existentially minded milieu of Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, then the Technicolor candy kingdom of swinging London. One photograph shows partygoers lolli...
... long he was working for figures such as Anish Kapoor and Lucian Freud, documenting their works for publication. Through working for the Annely Juda Gallery, he had access ...
... liked to paint alone at night, Duchamp painted by gaslight in New York, and Kandinsky had a fondness for dusk. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) had a day studio and a night studio...
... in the heart of London’s Soho, it was frequented by aristocrats, businessmen, celebrities and artists, including Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Names on the guest list ...
... era’s more unorthodox adventures in the quest for meaning through relationships. An obvious choice is Lucian Freud, calmly dissecting the surface textures of his former ...
... Bernard’s 1983 photograph of Lucian Freud shows him tumbling on his studio floor, next to piles of rags and yet more splats of paint. Years later, Darren Almond’s The ...
... clearly to Lucian Freud, but, through its concept, to John Coplans.
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There are, however, also conversations within the exhibition between Colbert’s work – ...
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