Dawson David Lucian Freud Sebastian (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Jacket has contact plastic applied which has wrinkled on the flaps but not exterior. The tips of five pages had been folded, otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. 240pp Lucian Freud is not only the most celebrated artist working in England, but one of the most private. He has frequently stated his reluctance to be photographed and he has almost never agreed to be interviewed. Following the publication of the last ten years of his work by Jonathan Cape in the autumn of 2005, the painter has agreed to talk to Sebastian Smee, a writer on art whom he greatly respects, in a series of conversations rather than formal interviews. He wants to talk about painting itself, the demands of his own work and the painters he admires.Two photographers have had access to Freud's studio. The late Bruce Bernard was a friend for many years and the subject of two of Freud's paintings. Bernard was an authority on photography, a great picture editor, and also a very fine photographer. He made a number of studies of Freud at work. Over the last five years in particular, Freud's assistant, the painter David Dawson, has been photographing the artist constantly. The results reveal various stages of works in progress, including paintings of Dawson himself, and the intensity of the activity in this very secret domain. The only precedent to such a document might be David Douglas Duncan's photographs of Picasso at work, but nothing as extensive has been published on such a major painter before. Size: 235mm x 265mm. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Hardcover. 4to (9.5" x 10.5"). Condition is Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. There is a fingerprint stain at bottom of one page toward the rear of book. Pages, covers, and jacket are otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Color illustrations throughout. 256 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 26 full page color plates. Foreword by Sebastian Smee. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, March 30 - August 1, 2004. Tight, clean and crisp. Some indentations to wraps, otherwise in excellent condition. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. ; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. David Dawson and Bruce Bernard (illustrator). 1st Edition. VG/VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 250 pages. 10.50x9.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.