{"product_id":"a-painters-progress-a-portrait-of-lucian-freud-9780385354080","title":"A Painter's Progress: A Portrait of Lucian Freud","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor nearly twenty years David Dawson was Lucian Freuds assistant  companion  and model. Freud moved in rarefied  powerful circles and was tenacious about protecting his privacy. He also carefully avoided distraction. With few exceptions  he wanted only those he knew well  like the late Bruce Bernard  to photograph him. David Dawson  however  was in a unique position  and as Freud became comfortable in the presence of Dawsons camera  photographing became part of the daily ritual of the studio. These photographs reveal in a most intimate way the subjects and the stages of paintings in progress. Few artists  if any  have had their lives and their work recorded over such a length of time.  Despite Freuds sense of privacy  his circle was wide. Among those who regularly visited Freud were figures from the art world  including art historian John Richardson  and painters David Hockney  and Frank Auerbach  along with model Kate Moss and friends such as the Duke of Beaufort. The book begins in Freuds old studio in Holland Park and then records the artist in his eighteenth-century house in Kensington  the first floor of which was his final studio. Dawson also photographed Freud on his visits to look at masterpieces in various museums in New York  Amsterdam and Madrid. The book ends with views of the rooms in which Freuds own extraordinary collection of paintings was hung. It is the only record of the house itself before the dispersal of the art on his death  but ultimately  the photographs create an intimate portrait of the man. The final images in this book are of the hanging of Freuds work in his posthumous London exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Haunting and fascinating  this is a revelatory document about one of our most important and influential painters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666171551797,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385354088","price":72.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385354080.jpg?v=1782421552","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-painters-progress-a-portrait-of-lucian-freud-9780385354080","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}