Drawings 1940

Lucian Freud; Sebastian Smee

ISBN 10: 1880146398 / ISBN 13: 9781880146392

Published by Matthew Marks Gallery, 2003

About this Item

Hardcover, 238 pages, NOT ex-library. Limited minor wear only, book is fresh, clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Bright untorn dust jacket. -- This volume, published to accompany an exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery, presents a collection of early drawings by the renowned artist Lucian Freud, all created in the single year of 1940. These works were made when Freud was just seventeen and a student at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing. The book showcases his precocious talent and the emergence of his distinctively sharp, linear style. The drawings, primarily portraits and studies of animals, reveal an intense, almost clinical observation that would become a hallmark of his later work. An accompanying essay by Sebastian Smee provides critical and historical context for this formative period in the artist's career. -- Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was one of the foremost and most uncompromising British painters of the 20th century, and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. He is renowned for his unflinching, psychologically penetrating portraits and nudes, rendered with a raw, visceral intensity. His work relentlessly explored the physicality and vulnerability of the human form, making him a master of modern figurative art. -- The core of the book consists of 168 plates that reproduce a collection of drawings (most hitherto unpublished) made by Lucian Freud in 1940 when he was seventeen years old. These drawings were created during the first winter of World War II, primarily in Capel Curig, Wales, where Freud was staying with his school friend David Kentish and the poet Stephen Spender; with additional sheets from London later that year.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Drawings 1940
• Publisher: Matthew Marks Gallery
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880146398
• ISBN 13: 9781880146392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Fine, Essay by Sebastian Smee. 238 pages. 168 plates. Produced to accompany the Gallery in N Y.