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Lucian Freud

Door William Feaver

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#347983-KL34
Titel
Lucian Freud
Auteur
Feaver, William
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York, NY : Rizzoli
Jaar van uitgave
2007
ISBN10
0847829529
ISBN13
9780847829521
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black cloth, gilt lettered spine, dustjacket, decorative endpapers, numerous (full page) colour and b/w illustrations, in decorative cardboard slipcase, 4to.
Samenvatting
This volume, with more than 400 reproductions, will be the most comprehensive publication to date on Lucian Freud, covering a span of seventy years and including many works not previously reproduced. The result is a corpus of great works that reveal him to be the premier heir today of Rembrandt, Courbet, and Cézanne. The book includes not only Freud's paintings but also his sketches, woodcuts, and powerful etchings. While the bulk of his paintings are female nudes, his cityscapes, plant studies, and interiors, executed in his distinctive muted palette and visible brushwork, are all included. Freud, who has lived in London ever since his family left Berlin in 1933 when he was ten, has achieved preeminence through his ruthless perception of the human form. His importance has long been... (Lees verder) recognized in England, but his present super-celebrity status dates from a retrospective at the Hirshhorn in Washington, D. C., in 1987. William Feaver, painter and for many years art critic for The Observer, provides a unique account of Freud's preoccupations and achievement. Startling, moving, profoundly entertaining, the book lives up to Freud's advice to students when getting them to paint self-portraits: “To try and make it the most revealing, telling, and believable object. Something really shameless, you know.”
Pagina's
487
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 75,00

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