Portraits were central to the work of Lucian Freud (1922-2011).
John Richardson is author of the three-volume biography A Life of Picasso..
Michael Auping is chief curator at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth and coauthor of Ed Ruscha: Road Tested.
About the Author: Sarah Howgate is curator of contemporary Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and author of David Hockney Portraits (Yale).
An essential book for every personal art library, this lavishly illustrated volume celebrates the work and career of an artist who overturned traditional portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art.
An illustrated chronology of the artist\'s life provides fascinating insights into Freud\'s background as a grandson of Sigmund Freud, and his unorthodox artistic education.
Freud was private man who rarely gave interviews, and his thoughts on the complex relationship between artist and sitter and the challenges of painting nudes and self-Portraits are published here for the first time, documented in a series of interviews with Michael Auping, conducted between May 2009 and January 2011.
Freud\'s chosen subjects were often his intimates--family members, friends, and artistic colleagues such as Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Leigh Bowery, and David Hockney.
Featuring the finest Portraits from public and private collections around the world, the book explores the stylistic development and remarkable technical virtuosity of an artist regarded as one of the most innovative figurative painters the medium has known.
Working only from life, the artist claimed, "I could never put anything into a picture that wasn\'t actually there in front of me." This major retrospective catalogue surveys Freud\'s Portraits across the seven decades of his career.
Portraits were central to the work of Lucian Freud (1922-2011)
