Lucian Freud

Tate, 2002-10-01. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Like New. 10x8x0. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 240 p., ill., 31 cm. <br> "Lucian Michael Freud (1922-2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud got his first name 'Lucian' from his mother in memory of the ancient writer Lucian of Samosata. His family moved to England in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942 to 1943 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He served at sea with the British Merchant Navy during the Second World War. His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism. Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally somber and often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes." - Tate <br> This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.