This volume with more than 400 reproductions will be the most comprehensive publication to date on <strong>Lucian Freud</strong> covering a span of seventy year... » 

This volume with more than 400 reproductions will be the most comprehensive publication to date on Lucian Freud covering a span of seventy years and including many works not previously reproduced. The result is a corpus of great works that reveal him to be the premier heir today of Rembrandt Courbet and Czanne. The book includes not only Freuds paintings but also his sketches woodcuts and powerful etchings. While the bulk of his paintings and interiors executed in his distinctive muted palette and visible brushwork are all included.Freud who has lived in London ever since his family left Berlin in 1933 when he was ten has achieved preeminence through his ruthless perception of the human form. His importance has long been recognized in England but his present supercelebrity status dates from a retrospective at the Hirshhorn in Washington D.C. in 1987. William Feaver painter and for many years art critic for The Observer provides a unique account of Freuds preoccupations and achievement. Startling moving profoundly entertaining the book lives up to Freuds advice to students when getting them to paint selfportraits To try and make it the most revealing telling and believable object. Something really shameless you know. «