| Description |
13 pages : illustrations, plates (chiefly color) ; 30 cm |
| Summary |
""The greatest living realist painter" is how Robert Hughes described Lucian Freud in 1998. He is probably most famous as a portraitist, a portraitist above all of nudes. Stripped of their clothes, his sitters - mostly friends or family members - are revealed in all their vulnerability. Their gorgeously painted flesh is alive. As Freud himself has said of his nudes, "I used to leave the face to the last. I wanted the expression to be in the body. The head must be just another limb."" |
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"The most daring of Freud's recent portraits is a full-length painting of Andrew Parker-Bowles - a new, subtly satirical take on the grand manner that stretches back through van Dyck to Titan. Like Goya, Freud is without reverence. With his portrait of the Queen, you feel the canvas is a window through which Her Majesty is bursting, diadem and all. Freud has also indulged his passion for animals in some wonderfully perceptive studies of horses and his whippet, Pluto. And he has proved to be an acute observer of nature in obsessively meticulous but wonderfully fresh paintings and engravings of the buddleia bush in his garden. This book is a dazzling record of a powerful late period by our last great painter."--BOOK JACKET |
| Subject |
Freud, Lucian -- Catalogs.
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Figurative art, British -- Catalogs.
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| Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
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| Author |
Smee, Sebastian.
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| LC no. |
2005050428 |
| ISBN |
0307262987 |
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