Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits

by Sebastian Smee, David Dawson, Jasper Sharp, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912520060
• ISBN13: 9781912520060
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 11.1"