- Also known as
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Lucian Freud
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primary name: Freud, Lucian
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1922-2011
- Biography
- Painter and printmaker; born on December 8 1922 in Berlin into a dynasty that included psychoanalyst grandfather Sigmund and brother Clement, the writer and broadcaster; with the rise of fascism in Germany, moved with his family to the UK in 1933; spent short spells at Dartington Hall, Bryanston and the Central School of Art, before settling at Cedric Morris's East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Dedham in Essex; as a teenager joined the merchant navy but was invalided out in 1942; the following year he moved to Paddington, west London, where he remained for 30 years, renting flats in areas scheduled for clearance; married twice and had a number of lovers; two children from his first wife, Kitty Epstein, and seven others from his lovers Suzy Boyt and Bernardine Coverley; starting point for Freud's artistic career came at 17 with the publication of a self-portrait in Cyril Connolly's magazine Horizon; first solo exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery in 1944; Interior at Paddington won a prize at the Festival of Britain; his many portrait subjects include himself, members of his family and his famous muse, the performance artist Leigh Bowery; has also painted the Queen, actress Jerry Hall and Francis Bacon; nominated for the Turner prize in 1988; nude portrait of the model Kate Moss, painted while she was pregnant, fetched £3.9m at auction in 2004; died in London on 20 July 2011.
- Bibliography
- Craig Hartley,'The Etchings of Lucian Freud: A Catalogue Raisonné 1946-1995', London and New York: Marlborough Graphics, 1995; 'Lucian Freud, Recent Etchings 1995-1999', London: Marlborough Graphics, 1999
Craig Hartley, 'Lucian Freud: Etchings 1946-2004', Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, in association with Marlborough Graphics, 2004
Toby Treves, 'Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints', London: Modern Art Press, 2022
Starr Figura, 'The Painter's Etchings', exh. cat., New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2007 (print retrospective)
Sebastian Smee and Richard Calvocoressi, 'Lucian Freud on Paper', New York: Rizzoli, 2009 (anthology of drawings and prints)
William Feaver and Mark Rosenthal, 'Lucian Freud Drawings', (exh. cat.), London: Blain Southern in association with Acquavella Galleries, New York, 2012 (drawing retrospective)
