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Lucian Freud

(British, 1922–2011)

Lucian Freud

Head of Ali, 1999

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Lucian Freud

The Egyptian Book, 1994

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Lucian Freud

Head and Shoulders of a Girl, 1990

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Lucian Freud

Before the Fourth, 2004

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Biography

Timeline

1922: Born in Berlin, Germany
1931: Moved to England with his parents
1933 - 1938: Attended Dartington Hall School near Totnes, Devon then at Bryanston
1939 - 1942: Attended Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, UK
Studied at the East Anglican School of Painting and Drawing, Dedham under Cedric Morris
1939: Acquired British nationality
1949 - 1954: Visiting tutor at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
1951: Receives Purchase Prize from Arts Council of Great Britain for Interior in Paddington exhibited in Sixty Paintings for '51 as part of the Festival of Britain.
1993: Awarded the Order of Merit

Exhibitions

2012: Lucian Freud: Drawings, Blain Southern, London (solo)
2010: Lucian Freud: L'Atelier, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
2008: Major Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Small Format, Faggionato Fine Arts, London, UK
2007: Paiting Now! - Back to Figuration, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006: Popart and after, Galerie Haas AG, Zurich, Switzerland
PAPER, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2005: Creative Tenison: British Art 1900-1950, The Fine Art Society, London, UK
2004: Lucian Freud: Etchings 1964-2004, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Scotland (solo)
Matisee to Freud: A Critic’s Choice, The Alexander Walker Bequest, The British Museum, London, UK
Fresh Works on Paper, 5th Anniversary Exhibition, James Kelly Contemporary, Sante Fe, NM
Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, Linbudy Galleries, London, UK (catalogue)
2003: Lucian Freud: Drawings 1940, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Drawings 1940, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) (solo)
Important Works on Paper & Ceramics, Rex Irwin, Sydney, Australia
Portraiture, Karyn Love Grove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Lucian Freud, Tate Britain, London, UK; traveled to Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) (solo)
Lucian Freud: Prints, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen, Germany (catalogue) (solo)
The Nude in Twentieth Century Art, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
2001: Lucian Freud, Naked Portraits, Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue) (solo)
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2000: Etchings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) (solo)
Lucian Freud: Recent Work, 1997-2000, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York, NY (catalogue) (solo)
A New Painting, White Cube, London, UK (solo)
Twentieth-Century Art, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York, NY
La Mirada Fuerte: Pintura Figurativa de Londres, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
The School of London and Their Friends: The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT; traveled to Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY (catalogue)
Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London, UK (catalogue)
Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Blaine Fine Art, London, UK (catalogue)
1999: Lucian Freud, Etchings from the 1990s, Marlborough Graphics, Ltd., London, UK (catalogue) (solo)
Lucian Freud, Etchings from the Paine Webber Art Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT; traveled to Museumof Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue) (solo)
Regarding Beauty, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; traveled to Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (catalogue)
1998: Lucian Freud, Some New Paintings, Tate Gallery, London, UK (catalogue) (solo)
Lucian Freud, Paintings and Drawings, Theo Waddington Fine Art, London, UK (solo)
L’Ecole de Londres: de Bacon á Bevan, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Paris, France; traveled to Santiago de Compostella, Spain; and Vienna (catalogue)
Sargent to Freud: Modern British Painting and Drawing in the Beaverbrook Art Collection, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada; traveled to Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK; and Canada House, London, UK (catalogue)
1997: Lucian Freud, Early Works, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK (catalogue) (solo)
Lucian Freud, Radierungen, Rubenspreis der Stadt Siegen, Haus Orienstrasse-Adolf-Sänger-Stiftung, Ausstellungsforum des Siegerlandmuseums, Siegen, Germany (catalogue) (solo)
1996: Thinking Print: From Books to Billboards, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1987 - 1988: Retrospective exhibition organised by the British Council at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; traveled to Paris, France, London, UK, and Berlin, Germany
1974: Lucian Freud: Retrospective, Arts Council of Great Britain at the Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1954: Represented Britain at the 27th Venice Biennale of Art with Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon, Venice, Italy
1944: First one-man exhibition at Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London, UK

Public Collections

: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
: National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, Canada
: Museo Botero, Bogota, Colombia
: Tate Britain, London, UK
: National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN

Lucian Freud

(British, 1922–2011)

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Lucian Freud

(British, 1922–2011)

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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