| LUCIAN FREUD GALLERY Girl With Closed Eyes 1987 Header Photo: Low resolution detail from the cover of the important 2015 Tate book, Lucian Freud (British Artists Series). © The Lucian Freud Archive (as are all images). Lucian Freud Books, Exhibition Catalogues, Dvds and In Depth Reviews Search Site Images In 1956, upon realizing that his solitary portraits needed liberating, Freud began exploring the expressionistic chiaroscuro techniques that would illuminate his figures from novel perspectives. His pursuit of the liberated figure, however, would not be fully realized until Freud began in earnest his study of female nude portraiture in 1966. The female nude remains the most powerful and most subversive form in Freud’s work, and the one on which Freud would ultimately expend the majority of his creative genius. Whether his subject is a friend, lover, relative, or one of his own three children, Freud seemed to celebrate the naked body as a whole, covered in light and life, without deceit or cunning, just the uncovered honesty of female flesh. Recommended: The best book for latter period of Freud's output is the 2005 book Lucian Freud: 1996 - 2005. Lucian Freud signed items @ ebay.co.uk (direct link to signed items and yes they are out there though rare) Lucian Freud - Portraits Book Review Lucian Freud - William Feaver (2005) Book Review Lucian Freud - Paintings (1989) Book Review Lucian Freud - Taschen Book (2007) Lucian Freud - Marlborough Exhibition Catalogue, October 1963 Lucian Freud - Etchings 1946-2004 Book Lucian Freud - The Painter's Etchings Book Etchings of Lucian Freud - A Catalogue Raisonne 1946-1995 Book Lucian Freud - Acqueforti Italian Book Lucian Freud by William Feaver Book The Glass Tower Illustrated by Lucian Freud Book Lucian Freud - Arts Council 1974 Catalogue Lucian Freud - Recent Drawings and Etchings 1994 Catalogue Lucian Freud - Recent Etchings 1995-1999 Marlborough Graphics Exhibition Catalogue, 1999 Lucian Freud - Drawings, Selected by William Feaver Book Lucian Freud - The Studio Book A Painter's Progress: A Portrait of Lucian Freud Book Search Site Top of Page |
This in turn is the Lucian Freud painting. Girl with a Kitten, 1947. The only other time I've seen comparable sheer beauty (outside of these Freud portraits of the same, hypnotic woman) is in Botticelli's Portrait of a Young Woman. 
