Lucian Freud
Self-Portrait: Reflection, 2002. Oil on canvas. Private Collection Photo: John Riddy.
Daily Life of People
5 Leigh on a Green Sofa, 1993. Oil on canvas. Private Collection. Photo: ourtesy Acquavella Galleries, Inc.
GALLERY The Reality
In a career spanning more than six de-
cades, Freud (British, b. Germany, 1922),
is Disturbing
has redefined portraiture and the nude On view from December 16, 2007,
through his frank scrutiny of the human to March 10, 2008,
form.
IMAGES COURTESY OF MOMA,NEW YORK
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Head of a Naked Girl, 1999. Oil on canvas. The UBS Art Collection.
Photo: Courtesy UBS Art Collection. 4
The Painter’s Mother (final version), 1982. Etching Plate / Sheet. Photo: Tate, London. 6
5 Head of an Irishman, 1999. Copper etching plate. The MoMA, New York.
Digital Image Courtesy The MoMA, Jonathan Muzikar.
3Man with a Blue Scarf, 2004. Oil on canvas. Collection Frances F. Bowes.
Photo: John Riddy.
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Girl with Leaves, 1948. Pastel on gray paper. The MoMA, New York. Digital Image Courtesy The MoMA, Mali Olatunji 5.
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5 Bella, 1981. Oil on canvas. Collection Roy and Cecily Langdale Davis. Photo: Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library.
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5 Girl with Fig Leaf, 1947. Etching Plate / Sheet. The Art Institute of Chicago. 5 Garden in Winter,1997-99. Etching Plate / Sheet. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery,
Dorothy Braude Edinburg Collection in honor of Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude. New York. Photo: Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago.
About the Artist
“
A grandson of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, the artist was born in Berlin
in 1922. He emigrated with his family to London in 1933 to escape the Although Freud’s etchings
Nazi takeover of Germany, and became a British citizen in 1939. His formal
training was brief but included an important period in 1939 when he studied speak for themselves in terms
at painter Cedric Morris’s East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in of their quality and strength,
Dedham. Freud began to work full-time as an artist in 1942 and had his first
solo exhibition in1944 at London’s Lefevre Gallery. this aspect of his work remains
Freud often describes his work as autobiographical, stating in 1974: “It is relatively little known as
about myself and my surroundings. It is an attempt at a record. I work from
the people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and compared with his paintings.
know. I use the people to invent my pictures with, and I can work more freely This exhibition reveals the
when they are there.”
Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings, Freud’s first solo exhibition at The
Museum of Modern Art and his first museum exhibition in New York City
integral and vitally important
place of etchings within
“
in 14 years, is organized by Starr Figura, The Phyllis Ann and Walter Borten Freud’s oeuvre. —S. FIGURA
Assistant Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art.
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