Artist of the week: Lusien Freud
ARTinvestment.RU   11 декабря 2013

December 8 would be executed in '91 one of the most recognized and celebrated contemporary artists, "modern classics," wrote the Queen of England, grandson of the famous Sigmund Freud - Lusien Freud

I paint people not how they look , or rather , not exactly .
I draw them like they are .
Lusien Freud


Lusien Freud Reflection ( Self-portrait ) . 1985
Oil on canvas. 51,2 × 56,2

Private collection Source : wikipaintings.org

December 8 would be executed in '91 one of the most recognized and celebrated contemporary artists , "modern classics ," wrote the English queen , grandson of the famous Sigmund Freud - Lusien Freud .

not every artist after his death reaches the glory that had fallen during the life of Freud . And during his lifetime he was legendarily successful and famous. His work has been exhibited ( and exhibited ) in museums and galleries known , sold with record , the phenomenal results at major auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's.

Lusien Michael Freud was born December 8, 1922 in Berlin , the son of the architect Ernst Ludwig Freud , the youngest son of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Architectural firm Ernst Freud brought a decent income to Lusien brothers (it was the middle of three sons) to attend the best schools in Berlin. Ahead waited arranged regular middle-class life . But his fate intervened History: Jewish origin ( and paternal and maternal ) and German policies of the 1930s were incompatible . With the coming to power of the Nazis Freuds position became increasingly precarious , and in 1933 , fleeing the Nazi reigning in the country , the family moved to London Freud ( to 1936 mu Lusien Freud already had British citizenship ).

Apparently, Lusien not immediately fit into English society : he was constantly changing schools (once even was expelled for violent behavior), they showed no eagerness to learn, play truant , hardly mastered the general education program . His schooling can even be called a slightly fragmentary . Did not change only one thing - his passion for art . There is even a legend that in 1938, when Lusien was 16 years old , he would have to test their strength , sent the contest to the Central School of Art (Central School of Arts and Crafts) carved out of a sandstone figure of a three-legged horse. Unexpectedly, this sculpture 's made ​​such an impression on the judges that Lusiena adopted in this school immediately. However, he did not stay there long, and the next , met in 1939 at the School of Painting and Drawing of East Anglia (East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing) in Dadheme , practicing under the guidance of renowned artist Cedric Morris . School of painting in the style of teaching and Dadheme Maurice Freud 's liking so that he studied there for more than two years (the record for a period of time) . Education was interrupted in 1941 - Freud joined the army and spent a year on the Adriatic - and renewed in 1942 , but in Goldsmitsonovskom University College London ( until 1943 ).

in 1944, the London gallery Alex Reid & Lefevre took the first solo exhibition of Freud. Its main exhibits were not typical of his mature work , originally intended for book charts : in 1943 at the request of a friend online Freud did illustrations for the book by Nicholas Moore's "The Glass Tower ." Among the subjects outline for the book were the main palm and stuffed zebra - they are the ones most frequently encountered on the gallery walls .

In his youth, Freud was very outrageous and odious . His friend and classmate of Francis Bacon recalled that one summer and winter appeared in an old dilapidated coat , telling that coat - a family heirloom and belonged to Sigmund Freud ... More " heirloom " surrounding unpleasantly struck love Freud's image of stuffed animals and carcasses . Say Lusien explained by the fact that so he can better understand the form, structure and texture of the animal's body . What is, of course, has its own logic : Scarecrow do not change its position and will not go away .

In his early works , Freud was obviously passionate about European Modernism . In 1946 he spent several months in Paris and Greece. Visited his fellow artists (for example, John on the island of Poros Krekstona ) and became better acquainted with modern artistic trends . Today, in his early works particularly specialists distinguish the influence of German Expressionism (which Freud has always denied - all his life he disowns the entire German and had not spent any exhibition in Germany and Austria ), and surrealism. On the other hand, the simplicity of color, complexity of composition , emphasized the flatness of the image in some of Freud 's portraits ( and portraits , and indeed the image of a man always been his priority picturesque motifs ) is clearly reminiscent of the Dutch medieval painting .


Lusien Freud The man with the pen ( Self ) . 1943
Oil on canvas. 76 × 50
Sotheby's. 22.06.2005 . Lot 12
Estimate : 2 000 000-3 000 000 pounds
Result: 3,704,000 pounds
Source : wikipaintings.org

Lusien Freud The girl with a kitten ( Portrait of Kitty Garman ) . 1947
Oil on canvas. 29,5 × 39,5
Tate Gallery , London
Source : tate.org.uk

After Greek Poros , in 1952 , Freud went back in Dublin - see the artist Patrick Swift - and in Paris ( in 1953 ) , where he married lady Caroline Blackwood . ( This was the second and officially - but only formally - his last marriage . Freud was a very loving person , he is rumored to about 40 children by different women, although he conceded only 14). After his marriage with his wife , Freud returned to London , where until the end of his life he lived and worked almost continuously .

Cases in London the young (he was a little more than 30 years) from the beginning of the artist went very well. His manner was quite recognizable work - bright , in many ways, primarily compositionally innovative. And of course, without orders , he was not sitting . Moreover, in 1951, he offered to provide one job at the British festival , which was quite an incredible honor and recognition for such a young artist. This work was " Interior in Paddington " - a portrait of Harry Diamond, a photographer from the East End ,

LUSIEN
Lusien Freud Interior in Paddington . 1951
Oil on canvas, 114,3 × 152,4
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Source : wikipaintings.org

Lusien Freud Girl with a white dog. 1950-1951
Oil on canvas. 76,2 × 101,6
Tate Gallery , London
Source : tate.org.uk

in 1950 Freud wrote mostly portraits - he wrote a lot of them , to order and friendship , honing their skills in them . Carefully prescribed physical resemblance , but for him ( and thanks to him ) performed visibly inner essence of the model. Intimate. Unvarnished .

free manner letters when writing out of planar facial shapes and details the artist moves to the broad , fast, expressive brushstrokes pasty , Freud found already by the mid-1950s . At this time, his work appears more nude ( it only appears naked figure of his first full-length he finished only by 1966 ) , and as a result , changing the overall flavor . From soothing , muted natural tones Freud goes to more skin tones . He is interested in the human body , the human body , its structure , texture, color and shades , he seeks to convey them with maximum precision .


Lusien Freud Reflection with two children ( Self ) . 1965
Oil on canvas. 91,5 × 91,5
Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza , Madrid
Source : wikipaintings.org

Lusien Freud Sleeping naked girl I. 1967
Oil on canvas. 61 × 61 Private collection

Source : wikipaintings.org

1960 - it's nude years . He writes of naked men and women in different poses , revealing more research than sensual interest in the body , which works in the 1960s seems rather a tool for solving compositional and coloristic artistic problems . During this period, Freud almost completely abandons the brushes , preferring prescribing sweeping fine lines , loose brushstrokes brush with long bristles and a palette knife . Surface of his works often literally takes on flesh - so thick painter uses paint, over and over again trying to create a texture of the surface of the human body .

And in 1970 his work gain scale . Now Lusien Freud is not afraid of big space. He works with a large format - and the canvas, and models. His skill is such that even a Rabelaisian figure in his huge canvases do not seem overly cumbersome or overwhelming. In this , perhaps, he goes after Titian and Rubens , which , by the way , not once called among his favorite authors .

Since the early 1970s , Freud and many successfully exhibited , first in the largest museums of England and then Europe and the world . 1976 - year of " London School ", a group created by American artist Ronald China. Freud joined her with Leon Kossoff , Frank Auerbach , Michael Andrews , Francis Bacon , etc. " London School " stood for figurative art , different kinds of realism , contrasting their creativity " provincial and orthodox avant-garde " - abstract art wave that swept in this period, the whole of England and Europe. Freud did not change his views on the figurative to the end of life. Moreover, his work (portraits and nudes ) maximum , maximum realistic, even naturalistic . In this his naturalism he sometimes teetering on the very edge of figurative art, but it is not moving .

last decades of his life , Freud already recognized and well-known master of realistic painting , almost never left the studio. He painted portraits and nudes , often inviting models as friends, acquaintances, women's favorite . In a series of images of people from the inner circle there are exceptions - for example, portraits of Elizabeth II, who came to pose for a portrait in his studio (!) , Or the favorite artists of Kate Moss .

 Lusien Freud Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. 2000-2001
Lusien Freud Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. 2000-2001
Oil on canvas. 23,5 × 15,2
Royal Collection , Buckingham Palace, London
Source : royalcollection.org.uk

Lusien Freud Portrait of a naked ( Kate Moss ) . 2002
Oil on canvas. 152,7 × 122,2
Christie's. 09.02.2005 . Lot 28
Estimate: 2 500 000-3 500 000 GBP
Result: 3,928,000 pounds
Source : christies.com

Interestingly, the portraits of fellow artists often continued in a sort of picturesque dialogues - for example, no less popular than Bacon portraits of Freud's work , enjoy the image of Freud , published under the hand of Bacon. Moreover , Bacon triptych depicting Lusiena Freud recently updated record for the most expensive contemporary artists sales .

 Lusien Freud Francis Bacon . 1956-1957
Lusien Freud Francis Bacon . 1956-1957
Oil on canvas, charcoal. 35,5 × 35,5
Christie's. 19.10.2008 . Lot 19
Estimate: 5 000 000-7 000 000 pounds
Result: 5,417,250 pounds
Source : christies.com
FRENSIS
FRANCIS BACON Three sketch Lusien Freud . 1969
Oil on canvas. 198 × 147,5 ( each part )
Christie's. 12/11/2013 . Lot 8a
Estimate on request ( 85 million dollars )
Result: 142,405,000 dollars
Source : christies.com

Freud repeatedly exhibited in major museums in Europe . In 2002, the Louvre has organized the Grand Palais exhibition " Constable : Select Lusiena Freud ," which , according to the organizers , " one great English painter has the honor of being presented to the French public by another great English painter " , in the same 2002, held large-scale retrospective at the Tate Gallery . This lifetime honor awarded rare artists .

Ten years later, in 2012 at the National Portrait Gallery in London was arranged first posthumous exhibition " Portraits Lusiena Freud ." The exhibition , which aimed to show the creative growth and evolution of the artist's manner , was presented 100 works from museums and private collections , in its preparation involved Freud himself until his death July 20, 2011 .



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