Lucian Freud - Hardcover

Feaver, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847829529 ISBN 13: 9780847829521

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, 2007

Synopsis

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 Cézanne. 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.”

About this title

About the Author

William Feaver is a painter, critic, writer, broadcaster, and curator.

He read history at Oxford, taught in schools in County Durham and Newcastle, was a research fellow at Newcastle University, and has been a critic for periodicals ranging from Vogue to The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, Artnews and, for many years, The Observer.

Books include Art of John Martin, Masters of Caricature, Pitmen Painters, Lucian Freud.

He has curated the following exhibitions: "Thirties" (Hayward, London 1979) Peter Moores Liverpool exhibitions (1983/85), Ashington Group (Beijing and tour 1980) "British Watercolours" (1982 Beijing and tour) and, most recently, "Constable" (2002 Grand Palais), "Michael Andrews" (2001 Tate), "Lucian Freud" (2002 Tate and tour), "Freud" (2005 Museo Correr, Venice), "Freud & Auerbach" V&A 2006.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847829529
• ISBN 13: 9780847829521
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 488