Lucian Freud

• Date de parution : 04/05/2018
• Editeur : Phaidon Press
• EAN : 9780714875262
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : 608
• Collection : (-)
• Genre : Arts et spectacles
• Thème : Monographie / Histoire de l'art / Essais / Dictionnaires
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

Larger-than-life British artist Lucian Freud had a career lasting almost seven decades, until the day he died, when he left his portrait of friend and studio assistant David Dawson unfinished.
This sumptuous, two-volume, slipcased publication celebrates Freud's work from the 1930s to his death... Voir plus

Larger-than-life British artist Lucian Freud had a career lasting almost seven decades, until the day he died, when he left his portrait of friend and studio assistant David Dawson unfinished.
This sumptuous, two-volume, slipcased publication celebrates Freud's work from the 1930s to his death in 2011, and includes hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sketches, prints, and etchings - even an illustrated private letter. This is both a vital contribution to art scholarship and a gorgeous addition to the bookshelves of art lovers around the world.

More than 480 illustrations, chronologically arranged to reveal the artist's work and development over his seventy years - Created in collaboration with the Lucian Freud Foundation, and edited by Mark Holborn and Freud's assistant and model David Dawson - Nearly all the artworks included have been newly photographed by celebrated British photographer John Riddy - Beautifully produced in two cloth-bound hardcover volumes, presented in an elegant slipcase - In 2019 the Royal Academy in London will host an exhibition of Freud's self-portraits, with a major traveling retrospective exhibition due in 2022