Freud, Lucian

Lucian Freud
(Berlin, 1922)

German-born British painter, regarded as one of the most important contemporary figurative painters.

The grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian has also taught at the Slade School. His works primarily depict still-lifes, nudes and urban scenes.

2004   Lucian Freud: Etchings 1964-2004, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Scotland -solo
Matisee to Freud: A Critic's Choice, The Alexander Walker Bequest, The British Museum, London
Fresh Works on Paper, 5th Anniversary Exhibition, James Kelly Contemporary, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, Linbudy Galleries, London (catalogue)
2003   Lucian Freud: Drawings 1940, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Drawings 1940, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue) -solo
Important Works on Paper & Ceramics, Rex Irwin, Sydney, Australia
Portraiture, Karyn Love Grove Gallery, Los Angeles
2002   Tate Britain, London; Traveled to Fundació "la Caixa," Barcelona; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) -solo
Lucian Freud, Prints, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen, Germany (catalogue) -solo
The Nude in Twentieth - Century Art, Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany
2001   Lucian Freud, Naked Portraits, Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (catalogue) -solo
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
2000   Etchings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue) -solo
Lucian Freud: Recent Work, 1997-2000, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York (catalogue)-solo
A New Painting, White Cube, London -solo
Twentieth-Century Art, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York
La Mirada Fuerte: Pintura Figurativa de Londres, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico
The School of London and Their Friends: The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Traveled to Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase (catalogue)
Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London (catalogue)
Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Blaine Fine Art, London (catalogue)
1999   Lucian Freud, Etchings from the 1990s, Marlborough Graphics, Ltd., London (catalogue) -solo
Lucian Freud, Etchings from the Paine Webber Art Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut; Traveled to Museumof Contemporary Art, San Diego; Seattle Art Museum; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalogue) -solo
Regarding Beauty, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Traveled to Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue)
1998   Lucian Freud, Some New Paintings, Tate Gallery, London (catalogue) -solo
Lucian Freud, Paintings and Drawings, Theo Waddington Fine Art, London -solo
L'Ecole de Londres: de Bacon á Bevan, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Paris; Traveled to Santiago de Compostella, Spain; and Vienna (catalogue)
Sargent to Freud: Modern British Painting and Drawing in theBeaverbrook Art Collection, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada; Traveled to Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom; and Canada House, London (catalogue)
1997   Lucian Freud, Early Works, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (catalogue) -solo
Lucian Freud, Radierungen, Rubenspreis der Stadt Siegen, Haus Orienstrasse-Adolf-Sänger-Stiftung, Ausstellungsforum des Siegerlandmuseums, Siegen, Germany (catalogue) -solo
1996   Thinking Print: From Books to Billboards, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987 - 1988   Retrospective exhibition organised by the British Council at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, and travelling to Paris, London and Berlin; the first major representation of Freud's work shown outside Britain.
1974   First retrospective exhibition, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain at the Hayward Gallery, London, and touring.
1954   Represents Britain at the 27th Venice Biennale of Art with Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon.
1944   First one-man exhibition at Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery.

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