Tag: Lucian Freud

  • Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists

    Tate Britain, London 12 November 2013 – 9 February 2014

  • The Mystery of Appearance: Conversations Between Ten British Post-War Painters

    The phrase “School of London” has frequently been applied to the artists showcased in Haunch of Venison’s latest exhibition, Mystery of Appearance, ever since R B Kitaj first used the term in relation to post-war British painting in 1976. Yet…

  • Lucian Freud: Drawings

    Blain Southern, London 17 February–5 April 2012

  • Lucian Freud Portraits

    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 that background of experience, I can only say that the current exhibition of Lucian…

  • The Naked Portrait

    6 June-2 September 2007 Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

  • David Hockney Portraits

    National Portrait Gallery, London 12 October 2006-21 January 2007 ‘What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing: you wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to…

  • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

    Pallant House Gallery, which opened on 1 July 2006 in the centre of Chichester, is a dramatic conjunction of old and new – dramatic, that is, internally. From the exterior, as approached from the town, a seamless joining has been…

  • Howard Hodgkin

    Tate Britain, London 14 June-10 September 2006