Lucian Freud: Drawings: Selected by William Feaver

Author: William Feaver and Lucian Freud

Over six decades, Lucian Freud has built up a reputation as one of the most distinctive contemporary figurative artists. Freuds startling and disconcerting portraits and nudes have a haunting quality that makes them impossible to forget. This stunning book brings together key works from Freuds entire career, including more than 140 paintings, drawings, and etchings.Rizzoli

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BlainSouthern is delighted to present the most comprehensive survey of works on paper by Lucian Freud (b.1922 - 2011). Beginning in the 1940s and spanning the artist's career, Lucian Freud: Drawings brings together more than 100 works, many of which have never been shown in public before.Curator William Feaver, who presented Freud's acclaimed retrospectives at Tate Britain, London (2002) and the Museo Correr, Venice (2005), worked closely with the artist on this exhibition for the last five years, until his death in July 2011. Freud always prided himself on his drawing, and Feaver believes that the 'interplay between the works on paper, both drawings and etchings, and the paintings of the past 70 years' was crucial to his artistic achievement. The curator emphasises that he has aimed 'to accomplish not so much a retrospective overview as a study of Freud's development from prodigy onwards.'The works range from the intimate, including portraits of his mother and father, his children and close friends - among them the painter Francis Bacon - to landscapes and studies of animals.Etchings, watercolours, gouaches and works rendered in chalk, charcoal, pastel, conte, and pen and ink, are to be interspersed with oil paintings, constantly interrelating."

Critic Reviews

"Once you become accustomed to the heftiness of the Rizzoli book, with its nearly 500 pages of high-quality paper, you can find great pleasure in the numerous illustrations and the breadth of vision it gives of the artist's development, with nearly 40 pictures that have never before been illustrated in books on Freud." "The Art Book"

"This latest effort will be useful as a sweeping visual appreciation of a painter of major importance." "Choice Magazine"

About the Author

William Feaver is a painter, critic, writer, and curator. He is the author of Freud's previous exhibition catalogue, "Lucian Freud" (Tate, 2002). He has curated the following exhibitions: Lucian Freud (2002 Tate and tour), Freud (2005 Museo Correr, Venice), and Freud & Auerbach (2006 V&A).