Lucian Freud - Resources for Art Lovers
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An Introduction to Lucian Freud (1922 - present)
This site is about Lucian Freud (1922 - present) - possibly Britain's greatest living painter and portrait artist
It shares information about the art of Lucian Freud - museums and art galleries, exhibitions and websites where you can see his work, books and articles about his artwork and his life and other resources for artists wanting to improve their knowledge about Freud, his views on art, his techniques and reviews by others of his work.
Note that works by this artist are not in the public domain. Freud is alive and all his work is protected by international copyright laws until at least 70 years after his death.
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- Lucian Freud - biography and career as an artist
- Lucian Freud - Technique
- Lucian Freud - exhibitions of his art in museums and art galleries
- BOOKS: About Lucian Freud
- Lucian Freud: Reviews
- Lucian Freud - links to paintings in art galleries and museums
- BOOKS: Lucian Freud and Etchings
- Lucian Freud in Online Galleries
- Articles about Lucian Freud
- Lucian Freud on Making A Mark
- Comments and suggestions
Lucian Freud - biography and career as an artist
- Tate Britain - Lucian Freud - A Chronology
- Chronology 1922 - 2002
- Lucian Freud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (born 8 December 1922) is a British painter.
- William Feaver on Lucian Freud | Weekend | Guardian Unlimited
- The Guardian, Saturday May 18, 2002
Lucian Freud, perhaps Britain's greatest painter, learned early on that portraits could be "revealing in a way that was almost improper". That terrible candour is clear in all his work. William Feaver looks back over his 60-year career with him
Lucian Freud - Technique
- Tate Britain | Past Exhibitions | Lucian Freud
- "As a painter, Freud works extremely slowly and deliberately, wiping his brush on a cloth after every stroke."
Narrative about Freud's techniques produced by Tate Britain for the retrospective exhibition in 2002 - BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Lucian Freud
- Review: Lucian Freud Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery
7 February 1988 BBC 2
Listen to extracts from a BBC interview with Lucian Freud - Charlie Rose - The Art of Lucian Freud / Nora Ephron
- Google video - Charlie Rose Interview
Author John Richardson and art dealer William Acquavella discuss the work of their friend, artist Lucian Freud
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - National Portrait Gallery | What's on? | Lucian Freud in the Studio
- LUCIAN FREUD IN THE STUDIO:
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID DAWSON 30 March - 1 August 2004
This display of photographs by Lucian Freud's studio assistant, David Dawson (b.1960), offers a fascinating insight into a contemporary master at work. Focusing on Freud's studio activity, these photographs give a rare glimpse of portrait sittings, studio visits and paintings in progress.
Lucian Freud - exhibitions of his art in museums and art galleries
- Tate Britain | Past Exhibitions | Lucian Freud
- 'I paint people', Freud has said, 'not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be'.
Lucian Freud Retrospective at Tate Britain (20 June - 22 September 2002) - Tate Britain | Past Exhibitions | Lucian Freud - Room Guide
- Room Guide: The Tate Britain retrospective exhibition spans more than sixty years of work by Lucian Freud, who has been described as Britain's greatest living realist painter. It is arranged chronologically, beginning with work done during the 1940s, and ending with work completed just before the start of this exhibition.
The links contained in the Room Guide enable you to view information about a particular room or work. Several also feature audio files. - MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2007 | Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings
- MOMA: Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings
December 16, 2007-March 10, 2008
Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor - MOMA: Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings
- MOMA: Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings
December 16, 2007-March 10, 2008
This is the link to an excellent virtual exhibition online - MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2007 | Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings - Events
- Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings
December 16, 2007-March 10, 2008
Events - Acquavella Exhibition Lucian Freud 2006
- Past Exhibitions: Lucian Freud - Recent Work
November 2, 2006 - December 20, 2006
The fourth exhibition of Lucian Freud's work at the gallery, this show presented the artist's newest paintings and etchings completed since his last show at Acquavella in 2004. - Acquavella Exhibition: Lucian Freud 2004
- Past Exhibitions: Lucian Freud - Recent Work
April 28, 2004 - May 27, 2004
This exhibition presented eighteen paintings and four etchings by Lucian Freud from 2002-2004, including representations of dogs, horses, four eggs, a solicitor, a brigadier, a tree, several children, and other subjects.
BOOKS: About Lucian Freud
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Lucian Freud
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 book includes not only Freud's paintings but also his sketches, woodcuts, and powerful etchings.
Release Date: 11/06/2007
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Lucian Freud
A catalogue produced to accompany the 2002 retrospective show which travelled from Tate Britain in London to Barcelona, and Los Angeles. It features key works from each phase of his six-decade-long career, from 1939 to the present.
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Lucian Freud, 1996-2005
Includes high quality reproductions of the textural quality of his work
Release Date: 12/27/2005
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Lucian Freud: Paintings
This volume has been highly acclaimed and includes over one hundred superb reproductions of his greatest paintings, pays tribute to one of the most original and accomplished artists of the twentieth century.
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Freud at Work: Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee
Freud at Work is a rare glimpse into the life of one of the most celebrated-and most private-artists working today. Though in his eighties, this great figurative artist continues to paint with undiminished energy and discipline.
Release Date: 11/07/2006
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Painting People: Figure Painting Today
"Painting People," edited by the prominent London art historian and critic Charlotte Mullins, unites and contrasts the work of a key group of artists from around the world, and investigates their richly varied accomplishments in lucid text with detailed commentaries, accompanied by more than 150 reproductions. The list of contributing artists is stellar, ranging from photo-based painters like Luc Tuymans, Peter Doig and Marlene Dumas to Pop artists like Sigmar Polke and Alex Katz, photorealists like Chuck Close and Gerhard Richter, Neoexpressionists like Cecily Brown, and comics-inspired painters like Yoshitomo Nara, Inka Essenhigh and Takashi Murakami. There are erotic grotesques from John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage, meditations on the muse by Elizabeth Peyton and Lucian Freud, "Repro-realistic" work from Neo Rauch and of course self-portraits by Philip Akkerman and Marcel Dzama, among others.
Release Date: 09/15/2006
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Lucian Freud (Basic Art)
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Freud on Constable: Lucian Freud on John Constable - A Conversation with William Feaver
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Lucian Freud: Reviews
- Lucian Freud - The Painter's Etchings ~ on view at MoMA | Art Knowledge News
- Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings, on view at MoMA from December 16, 2007, to March 10, 2008, highlights the artist's exceptional achievements in the medium of etching.
- In good company | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
- The Guardian, Saturday April 22nd, 2006
Lucian Freud's latest painting, Eli and David, will shortly appear alongside the work of his friend Frank Auerbach. But should they hang beside Constables and Turners? Curator William Feaver explains his decision - BBC - review of Freud Retrospective
- Lucien Freud retrospective at Tate Modern - 60 years of work by Britain's best-known portrait painter
- Observer review: Lucian Freud 1996-2005 | Review | The Observer
- The Observer: Review of "Lucian Freud 1996-2005"
- A conversation about Lucian Freud - Charlie Rose
- Videoed conversation with art historian John Richardson and art dealer William Acquavella of Acquavella Galleries about the influence of their friend, the renowned British painter Lucian Freud.
- The Guardian - Art - Inconvenient truths
- Inconvenient truths
One of Lucian Freud's sitters hated his portrait so much he destroyed it. The only surprise, writes Jonathan Jones, is that it doesn't happen more often
followed by........... - Lucian Freud: Art without the feel-good factor | Art & architecture | guardian.co.uk
- Blog post by Jonathan Jones
No other artist portrays his subjects with such intense and relentless honesty. But can we love the uncomfortable art of Lucian Freud?
(In connected with the destruction of a portrait by one of Freud's sitters)
Lucian Freud - links to paintings in art galleries and museums
- MoMA - works by Lucian Freud
- Links to 5 works by Lucian Freud
- Royal Collection - Lucian Freud
- Royal Collection:
Lucian Freud
Her Majesty The Queen2000-01 - National Portrait Gallery - Lucian Freud
- Sitter associated with 23 portraits | Artist of 3 portraits
National Portrait Gallery, list of portraits for Lucian Freud including
Lucian Freud by Sir Jacob Epstein,
Lucian Freud by Lucian Freud,
Lucian Freud by Lucian Freud,
Lucian Freud by Lord Snowdon,
Lucian Freud by Lord Snowdon,
Lucian Freud by Frank Auerbach, - Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid
- 4 works by Lucian Freud including
Portrait of Baron H. H. Thyssen-Bornemisza 1981-1982
Large Interior, Paddington 1968-1969
Reflection with Two Children (Self Portrait)1965 - Artcyclopedia: Lucian Freud Online
- Lucian Freud [German-born British Painter, born in 1922] Guide to pictures of works by Lucian Freud in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
- Artchive: Lucian Freud
- Artchive: Lucian Freud
narrative and links to paintings - Freud, Lucian (British, born Germany 1922) | Artist Index | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Freud, Lucian (British, born Germany 1922)
Works of Art (1) Naked Man - WebMuseum: Freud, Lucian
- Freud, Lucian (1922- ).
German-born British painter.
BOOKS: Lucian Freud and Etchings
books on Amazon
Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings
This volume accompanies a major Museum of Modern Art exhibition that presents the full scope of Freud's etchings, including some 75 works--from the rare early experiments of the 1940s to the increasingly complex compositions he has created since rediscovering the medium in the early 1980s. It's written by exhibition curator Starr Figura and includes a selection of paintings and drawings that illuminate the relationship between Freud's etchings and his works on canvas.
Release Date: 12/01/2007
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Lucian Freud: Etchings 1946 - 2004
Catalog of an exhibition held at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Apr. 2-June 13, 2004, at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, June 25-Sep. 25, 2004, at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Oct. 15-Dec. 23, 2004, at Waterhall Gallery of Modern Art, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Jan 29-May 2, 2005, and at Marlborough Graphics, Marlborough Fine Art, London, summer 2005.
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Lucian Freud: Recent Drawings and Etchings
Catalog of an exhibition held at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York from Dec. 11, 1993-Jan. 29, 1994.
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Lucian Freud in Online Galleries
- Lucian Freud - Google Image Search
- Lucian Freud - Google Images
- WebMuseum: Freud, Lucian
- Freud, Lucian (1922- ). German-born British painter.
He was born in Berlin, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, came to England with his parents in 1931, and acquired British nationality in 1939. His earliest love was drawing, and he began to work full time as an artist after being invalided out of the Merchant Navy in 1942. In 1951 his Interior at Paddington (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) won a prize at the Festival of Britain, and since then he has built up a formidable reputation as one of the most powerful contemporary figurative painters. - Lucian Freud
- List of Lucian Freud images
Articles about Lucian Freud
- Arts diary: Lucian Freud gets into the Olympic spirit with a show of personal bests | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
- An exhibition of portrait paintings by Lucian Freud is to be shown at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the London Olympic Games celebrations in 2012.
- Portraits by the artist as a very young man: early Lucian Freuds discovered - Times Online
- The brutal realism of his work has made him the world's most expensive living
artist, with each new painting that surfaces attracting great interest from
collectors. - Comment: Lucian Freud's early works show familiar taste for the ugly - Times Online
- Though his official biographer tends to deny it, there is a very noticeable
gap between Lucian Freud's present style and the way he painted at the
outset of his phenomenal career. - Lucian Freud -- Biography of the Painter Lucian Freud
- Lucian Freud is regarded by many as the best figurative artist of our time.
- Lucian Freud News - The New York Times
- News about Lucian Freud. Commentary and archival information about Lucian Freud from The New York Times.
Lucian Freud on Making A Mark
- Making a Mark: Lucian Freud - on film, in words and ink
- I had the very great privilege recently of seeing two films about Lucian Freud directed and introduced by Jake Auerbach which were shown, to a packed house, at the Prince's Drawing School in late March.
- Making a Mark: On Portraiture: Chuck Close and Lucian Freud
- Two videos and different perspectives on portraiture and the approaches of two different artists - Chuck Close and Lucian Freud. Both the videos are riveting interviews.
- Making a Mark: Lucian Freud: the Painter's Etchings - at MOMA
- An online review of "Lucian Freud: the Painter's Etchings" which opened in the Special Exhibitions Gallery on the 3rd floor of MOMA on December 16th and runs until March 10.
Making A Mark
Katherine Tyrrell writing about: - Making marks with pastels, pencils and pen and ink - Creating new drawings and paintings - Influences on developing both artwork and art careers - Interviews with artists - Information about resources for artists and art lovers ....and best viewed in Firefox
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makingamark wrote...
Also - see the technique section - watch the Charlie Rose interview/video on The Art of Lucian Freud. It's very enlightening as to the man and his work and how he works
Posted May 22, 2009
Lilli wrote
in reply to makingamark Ok. Thankyou. Do you have any suggestions? I am a bit stumped for information.
Posted May 22, 2009
makingamark wrote...
Thanks for the comments
Lilli - I've looked Lilli - there's not a lot online. I think you're going to need to hit the books for that.
Posted May 08, 2009
Lilli wrote
Some excellent links. I would love to see some websites that specifically discuss influences on the development of Freud's work, if that's possible. Thankyou.
Posted May 08, 2009
Ginny wrote
Great webpage you have here. Just what I was looking for. Thanks
Posted October 02, 2008
