Lucian Freud
1922–2011
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Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942-43 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He enlisted in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War.
His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism. Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies, and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models.
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Lucian Freud Leigh Bowery
1991
Lucian Freud Naked Portrait
1972–3
Lucian Freud Standing by the Rags
1988–9
Lucian Freud David and Eli
2003–4
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R.B. Kitaj The Wedding
1989–93
Helen Lessore Symposium I
1974–77
Sir Cedric Morris, Bt, recipient: Arthur Lett-Haines Telegram from Arthur Lett-Haines to Cedric Morris
8 November 1941
Sir Jacob Epstein, recipient: Peggy Jean Lewis Letter from Jacob Epstein to Peggy Jean
16 February [1955]
Sir Jacob Epstein, recipient: Peggy Jean Lewis Letter from Jacob Epstein to Peggy Jean
4 September [1954]
Sir Jacob Epstein, recipient: Peggy Jean Lewis Letter from Jacob Epstein to Peggy Jean
9 February [1959]
Sir Jacob Epstein, recipient: Peggy Jean Lewis Letter from Jacob Epstein to Peggy Jean
17 January [1955]
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