{"product_id":"lucian-freud-19962005-9780307262981","title":"Lucian Freud: 1996-2005","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe greatest living realist painter is how Robert Hughes described Lucian Freud in 1998. He is probably most famous as a portraitist  a portraitist above all of nudes. Stripped of their clothes  his sittersmostly friends or family membersare revealed in all their vulnerability. Their gorgeously painted flesh is alive. As Freud himself has said of his nudes  I used to leave the face to the last. I wanted the expression to be in the body. The head must be just another limb.  Freud has always worked outside the conventionsacademic as well as modernistof contemporary art. However  his vision reflects the anguish of his time as powerfully as the work of his close friend  the late Francis Bacon  once did. Where Freud triumphs is in his ability to get inside his sitters: not to analyze them  as his grandfather did  but to bring them to sentient life in paint.  Although he works very slowlymost portraits take months to finishFreud has spent the last ten years (since the publication of the 1996 monograph Lucian Freud) painting day after day  usually from 8 a.m. until midnight. The result has been a corpus of great new works  which reveal him to be the only heir today of Rembrandt  Courbet  and Czanne.  The most daring of Freuds recent portraits is a full-length painting of Andrew Parker-Bowlesa new  subtly satirical take on the grand manner that stretches back through van Dyck to Titian. Like Goya  Freud is without reverence. With his portrait of the Queen  you feel the canvas is a window through which Her Majesty is bursting  diadem and all. Freud has also indulged his passion for animals in some wonderfully perceptive studies of horses and his whippet  Pluto. And he has proved to be an acute observer of nature in obsessively meticulous but wonderfully fresh paintings and engravings of the buddleia bush in his garden. This book is a dazzling record of a powerful late period by our last great painter.  Lucian Freud was born in Berlin in 1922  the son of the architect Ernst Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His family moved to England in 1933. His work has been exhibited in major museums around the world with retrospectives at the Tate Gallery in London  the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York  and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651776045109,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307262987","price":134.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307262981.jpg?v=1781840435","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/lucian-freud-19962005-9780307262981","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}