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| SKU | collect100107c |
|---|---|
| Title | Lucian Freud: Life and Work Collection |
| Author Description | David Dawson and Mark Holborn |
| Uri | store/art/lucian-freud-life-and-work-collection-collect100107/ |
| Web Author Description | Mark Holborn is an editor and book designer who has worked with such diverse artists as Lucian Freud, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Issey Miyake, William Eggleston, and James Turrell. He edited, with David Dawson, the two-volume retrospective Lucian Freud (Phaidon 2018). David Dawson is a painter and director of the Lucian Freud Archive. He was Freud's studio assistant from 1991 until the painter's death, and was a frequent model for his paintings. |
| webLongDescription | A beautiful collection that brings together a two-volume set of Lucian Freud's work and a breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraits This collection includes: Lucian Freud: With more than 480 illustrations, this is the most comprehensive publication to date on one of the greatest painters of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Lucian Freud. Lucian Freud was one of the most significant artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and Phaidon is honoured to publish the most complete retrospective of his career to date. This sumptuous, definitive set is the result of an extraordinary collaboration between David Dawson - Director of the Lucian Freud Archive and for two decades Freud's assistant, model, and friend - author Martin Gayford, and editor Mark Holborn. Their collaboration has resulted in a book that goes beyond the work to reveal insights into the man himself. Gayford describes Freud's determination always to tell the truth about what he was recording in paint. He believed in a found beauty, not one that was imagined by an artist and then imposed on his subject. He painted what he saw, in exquisite detail, and he found it beautiful. With more than 480 illustrations, Phaidon celebrates that beauty - evoked in portraits of Freud's friends and family, his lovers, his neighbours, and others whose looks he liked, from his bookmaker to a bank robber. This is both a vital contribution to art scholarship and a gorgeous addition to the bookshelves of art lovers around the world. Lucian Freud A Life: A breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraits This unprecedented look at the private life of Lucian Freud begins with childhood snapshots and ends with rarely seen photographs made in his studio in the last weeks of his life. In between, the life of one of the most important artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is vividly documented - through family photos, in images of the painter in his studio with some of his most celebrated sitters, and in portraits by his peers, first among them Francis Bacon. |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Size | Size: 353 x 273 mm (13 7/8 x 10 3/4 in) |
| Pages | Pages: 866 |
| Illustrations | 620 |
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In between, the life of one of the most important artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is vividly documented - through family photos, in images of the painter in his studio with some of his most celebrated sitters, and in portraits by his peers, first among them Francis Bacon.\u003c/p\u003e","webReviews":"\u003cp\u003e\"His charisma was crucial to his method. It was what made his models bear happily the long ordeal of sitting for him, and therefore what afforded Freud the opportunity to observe his subjects at length - picking up on every twitch of a facial muscle, every iteration of how a subcutaneous layer of thigh fat bulged through a sitter's skin.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eDavid Kamp, Vanity Fair\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Provoking, vital, engrossing, gorgeously produced, revelatory even to Freud fans, and a joyous contribution to scholarship, this extravagant two-volume retrospective includes little-seen, privately owned work spanning seven decades, early illustrated letters, the first publication of Freud's rarest etchings, stories of sitters from loves to bookmaker and bank robber. My art book of the year.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He succeeds in doing what very few artists have ever done - to somehow suggest the many layers of contradictory experiences and impulses that go into the make-up of a flawed, human, and highly complex man.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eRichard Dormont, Telegraph\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stark and revealing... Recast the art of portraiture and offered a new approach to figurative art.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The original, unnerving, sustained artistic achievement of Lucian Freud... had at its heart a wilful, restless personality, fired by his intelligence and attentiveness and his suspicion of method, never wanting to risk doing the same thing twice.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A massive, two-volume monograph... Shin[es] a spotlight on his early work... [and] includes work from Freud's entire career.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eBloomberg.com\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This fall I'm looking forward to [...] indulging in a Freudian fantasy thanks to a very special two-volume book celebrating British artist Lucian Freud - who painted an iconic nude of the ultimate figure of desire, Kate Moss, in 2002 - and his work from the 1930s to his death in 2011.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003ePorter\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hundreds of rarely seen works in two massive volumes... Excellent.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eBloomberg Businessweek\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There should still be room on my coffee table for a handsome new picture book or two – and a double-volume set on Lucian Freud reproduces many rarely seen early works. Thoughtfully selected by artist David Dawson, one-time model and assistant to Freud, and narrated by Martin Gayford, it will undoubtedly prove popular.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair on Art\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An elegant two-volume, slip-cased monograph that celebrates artist Lucian Freud's many-decade-spanning career.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stunning... Sure to delight those in search of a full picture of the artist's output.\"\u0026mdash;\u003cem\u003eArtists \u0026amp; Illustrators\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"We absolutely loved this Phaidon collector's edition of Freud's work, with chapters dedicated to each decade of his life... It's a perfect holiday gift for any art lover.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003e`LondonArtStudies.com\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There should still be room on any coffee table for a handsome new picture book or two—and a double-volume set on Lucian Freud reproduces many rarely seen early works. Thoughtfully selected by the artist David Dawson, one- time model and assistant to Freud, and narrated by Martin Gayford, it will undoubtedly prove... Popular.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair Online\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Comprehensive monograph on one of the greatest British painters... A must for any distinguished bookshelf.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Telegraph, Stella\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With nearly 500 illustration to make its case, this publication is the most comprehensive survey of Lucian Freud's artistic achievements to date – and looks set to reinforce his primacy amongst post-war painters.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eApollo Magazine\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Exquisite.\"\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003eTatler.com\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","webShortDescription":"\u003cb\u003eA beautiful collection that brings together a two-volume set of Lucian Freud's work and a breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraits\u003c/b\u003e"}