书名：Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits

作者：Lucian Freud, Jasper Sharp

ISBN：9781912520060

出版社：Royal Academy of Arts

出版日期：2019.10.30

尺寸：23.37 x 2.03 x 28.19 cm

装帧：精装

页码：160

图幅数：130彩色

作者简介：

Lucian Freud于1922年出生在德国，1933年纳粹政权崛起期间永久搬到伦敦。在第二次世界大战期间短暂服役后，弗洛伊德于1944年在伦敦的亚历克斯·里德和莱弗尔画廊举办了他的第一次个人展览。尽管弗洛伊德1995年的肖像画《福利主管睡眠》在职业生涯中只是偶尔展出，但于2008年5月在纽约佳士得拍卖，价格为3360万美元，创下了一位活着的艺术家的一幅画的销售价值世界纪录。弗洛伊德于2011年在伦敦去世。

内容简介：

这位艺术家赤身裸体：卢西安·弗洛伊德的自画像重新定义了这种类型。

1964年，卢西安·弗洛伊德为诺维奇艺术学院的学生布置了一项任务：画裸体自画像，并让他们“揭示、讲述、可信......真的很无耻”。艺术家经常跟着自己，这是建议。弗洛伊德的自画像是内脏的，毫不畏惧，经常是裸体的，描绘了他的传记，让我们深入了解他的风格发展。

编辑推荐：

"Review

Captures [Freud's] most visceral essence, as his self-portraits were amongst the most emotional pieces ever painted. (Ken Scrudato Blackbook)

...Stretches the definition of ‘self-portrait’ while revealing that the painter was as unsparing with himself as with his other subjects. [...] In Freud’s visceral self-portraits it’s a troubled landscape indeed. (Peter Plagens Wall Street Journal)

Freud on Freud, no filter. [...] As he painted life, he also was painting its inevitable slippage, its wither and fade. His blunt devotion to the world in front of him, as it was, made mortality his real subject, something “The Self Portraits” rings clear as a bell. As he painted life, he also painted death. (Murray Whyte Boston Globe)

This book presents German painter Lucian Freud’s stunning but lesser-known self portraits. These canvases display the artist’s flesh in somber, provocative ways. (Natasha Wolff Forbes)

Seldom has a painter indulged in such relentlessly fierce, pitiless, lonely self-appraisal. And yet he could not stop himself. He had to plunge deep into the well of himself, no matter how dark the outcome. (Michael Glover Hyperallergic)

Freud painted a human truth that no one wants to confront, and that’s why his ugliness is so goddamn beautiful. (Eddy Frankel Time Out New York)

This is an artist who delights in confronting human flaws – both other people’s and his own. (Chloë Ashby Frieze)

Freud’s self-portraits...are all sorts of things: tender, witty, experimental and – yes, that dread word – visceral. To walk around this show is to be powerfully aware both of his intense single-mindedness – the sheer quality of his concentration – and of his abiding fascination with the idea of the shifting, slippery self; the experience is a little like being watched. But if some red thread does link them, it is surely this inescapable menace. (Rachel Cooke Guardian)

[Lucian Freud's] portraits will capture the evolution of an artist as he moved from the exactitude of a youthful style towards an ever freer, looser and more overtly painterly technique. They will show us a human being who, through long self-contemplation, captures the frank truth about flesh as it ages. (Nancy Durrant The Times)

Freud liked to take a long, hard look at himself--and more often than not, the results are stunning. (Alastair Smart Telegraph)"

内容推荐：

"The artist stripped bare by himself: Lucian Freud’s self-portraits redefine the genre

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them “revealing, telling, believable ... really shameless.” It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud’s self-portraits chart his biography and give us an insight into the development of his style.

These paintings provide the viewer with a constant reminder of the artist’s overwhelming presence, whether he is confronting the viewer directly or only present as a shadow or in a reflection. Freud’s exploration of the self-portrait is unexpected and wide-ranging. In this volume, essays by leading authorities, including those who knew him, explore Freud’s life and work, and analyze the importance of self-portraiture in his practice.

Lucian Freud was born in Germany in 1922, and permanently relocated to London in 1933 during the ascent of the Nazi regime. After seeing brief service during World War II, Freud had his first solo exhibition in 1944 at the Alex Reid & Lefevre Gallery in London. Despite exhibiting only occasionally over the course of his career, Freud's 1995 portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping was sold at auction, at Christie's New York in May 2008, for $33.6 million, setting a world record for sale value of a painting by a living artist. Freud died in London in 2011."