Lucian Freud

[German-born British Painter, born in 1922]

• Relationships:	Grandson of Sigmund Freud.
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Normally I underplay facial expression when painting the figure, because I want expression to emerge through the body. I used to do only heads, but came to feel that I relied too much on the face. I want the head, as it were, to be more like another limb.

- Lucian Freud, quoted by Michael Kimmelman (found at Constable.net)

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Original works by Lucian Freud available for purchase at art galleries worldwide

Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Painter's Mother in Bed, 1983
Man Posing, 1985

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Large Head, 1993
(In the "Etching" section)

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Large Head, 1993

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
After Cézanne

The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")

Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia

Art Fund for UK Museums

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
6 prints online

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick

Bibliotheque Nationale de France (in French)
Lord Goodman in his yellow pyjamas, 1987

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Museum of London, UK
Portrait of John Minton, 1952

National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Sir Cedric Morris
The Painter's Brother, Stephen Freud, 1985-86

National Museums Liverpool, UK
Interior at Paddington, 1951

National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
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Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)

Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, Netherlands   NEW!
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Southampton City Gallery, England
Bananas, 1952

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK   NEW!
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Commercial Galleries:

Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

Pictures from Image Archives:

Lucian Freud in the Artchive

Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Reflection

Lucian Freud in the WebMuseum

Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)

Humanities Web

Lucian Freud at ImageNETion

Lucian Freud at The Athenaeum
23 works online

USC Annenberg School for Communication

Web Sites About the Artist:

The First Post
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Other Web Sites:

British Council Arts Group

FBI Art Theft Program
Portrait of Francis Bacon, oil on copper, 1951

The Turner Prize awarded by the Tate Gallery, London
Freud was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1988 and 1989

UBS Financial Services Art Collection

UK Government Art Collection

Articles:

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Apollo Magazine
"A new painting of a horse by Lucian Freud shows that his genius for portraiture is not applied only to humans"

Art + Auction Magazine
Ib and Her Husband, 1992

Art + Auction Magazine
Woman with an Arm Tattoo, 1996

artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
The Brigadier

ARTnews
Named as one of "The 10 Most Expensive Living Artists"

Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies

Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 71): Lucian Freud

Resource Library Magazine
Bruce Bernard, 1996

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Leigh Bowery (Seated), 1990

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Mud and Fog on Canvas: Kossoff and Lucian Freud

The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Lucian Freud on Titian's Diana and Callisto and Diana and Actaeon

Time Magazine
"The Fat Lady Sings", 1993 article by Robert Hughes

Multimedia:

The BBC
Audio selections from an interview with the artist

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