Lucian Freud 1990 Etching ‘head and shoulders of a girl’ proof III-V
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Lucian Freud 1990 Etching ‘head and shoulders of a girl’ proof III-V
Lucian Freud (British 1922-2011)
Medium : Print : aquatint, dry point
Dimensions cm : 33 x 25 cm – inch : 13.2 x 10
Support : Print on paper
Edition : PROOF III/V
Provenance : Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne (from Private Collection, Sydney)
As Starr Figura writes in her insightful catalogue, which accompanied a major retrospective of the artist’s etchings in 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York:
‘Commonly viewed from an unusual vantage point, the angular limbs, foreshortened faces, and tortured body language rebuke the tradition of the ideal nude. Indeed, by deliberately referring to his depictions as ‘Naked Portraits’, Freud consciously distinguishes his works from venerable ‘nudes’ and emphasises the rawness that is central to his vision. The location is always Freud’s studio – a reference to the artist’s own world rather than any mythical or symbolic setting. “I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art”, he has stated. “For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.” Ignoring whatever taboos regarding the body that may persist today, Freud means for his works to “astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.” Their strangeness comes, as Robert Hughes has written, ‘in large part from their making: they bypass decorum while fiercely preserving respect’.
Lucian Freud is considered one of the most important figurative painters of the past century. The son of architect Ernst Freud and grandson of Sigmund Freud, the artist became famous for his unsparing, psychological translations of the human body into loose brushwork and richly applied color. His portraits – of lovers, friends, family, and celebrities such as David Hockney, Kate Moss, and Queen Elizabeth II – are fleshy, honest, tender, and complex. Freud has been the subject of retrospectives at institutions around the world, including the Royal Academy of Art, Tate Britain, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
His work can be found in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the National Gallery of Australia, among others. On the secondary market, many of Freud’s works have notched more than $10 million.
Artwork is in excellent condition
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Lucian Freud 1990 Etching ‘head and shoulders of a girl’ proof III-V
Lucian Freud (British 1922-2011)
Medium : Print : aquatint, dry point
Dimensions cm : 33 x 25 cm – inch : 13.2 x 10
Support : Print on paper
Edition : PROOF III/V
Provenance : Darren Knight Gallery, Melbourne (from Private Collection, Sydney)
As Starr Figura writes in her insightful catalogue, which accompanied a major retrospective of the artist’s etchings in 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York:
‘Commonly viewed from an unusual vantage point, the angular limbs, foreshortened faces, and tortured body language rebuke the tradition of the ideal nude. Indeed, by deliberately referring to his depictions as ‘Naked Portraits’, Freud consciously distinguishes his works from venerable ‘nudes’ and emphasises the rawness that is central to his vision. The location is always Freud’s studio – a reference to the artist’s own world rather than any mythical or symbolic setting. “I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art”, he has stated. “For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.” Ignoring whatever taboos regarding the body that may persist today, Freud means for his works to “astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.” Their strangeness comes, as Robert Hughes has written, ‘in large part from their making: they bypass decorum while fiercely preserving respect’.
Lucian Freud is considered one of the most important figurative painters of the past century. The son of architect Ernst Freud and grandson of Sigmund Freud, the artist became famous for his unsparing, psychological translations of the human body into loose brushwork and richly applied color. His portraits – of lovers, friends, family, and celebrities such as David Hockney, Kate Moss, and Queen Elizabeth II – are fleshy, honest, tender, and complex. Freud has been the subject of retrospectives at institutions around the world, including the Royal Academy of Art, Tate Britain, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
His work can be found in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the National Gallery of Australia, among others. On the secondary market, many of Freud’s works have notched more than $10 million.
Artwork is in excellent condition
