Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

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“An abnormal record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a murals.” ―ARTnews

Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely thought to be the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The day-to-day narrative of their encounters takes the reader into that most private place, the artist’s studio, and to the heart of the working methods of this up to date master―both technical and subtly psychological. From this emerges an understanding of what a portrait is, but something else may be created: a portrait, in words, of Freud himself. This isn’t a biography, but a series of close-ups: the artist at work and in conversation at restaurants, in taxis, and in his studio. It takes one into the company of the painter for whom Picasso, Giacometti, and Francis Baron Verulam were friends and contemporaries, as were writers such as George Orwell and W. H. Auden.

The book is illustrated with many of Lucian Freud’s other works, telling photographs taken by David Dawson of Freud in his studio, and images by such great artists of the past as van Gogh and Titian who are discussed by Freud and Gayford.

Full of wry observations, the book reveals the inside story of the way it feels to pose for a remarkable artist and develop into a murals. 63 illustrations, 57 in color

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