Smithsonian Magazine

Lucian Freud Is Famous for His Unflinching Portraits. These Rarely Seen Drawings Provide an Intimate Window Into His Creative Process

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London showcases drawings and etchings from throughout the British ...

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting review – no, I don’t want to come up and see these etchings

Freud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on?

A great artist on paper: why Lucian Freud’s magical drawings are the key to his major works

The artist often swapped painting for etching as a way to rediscover his craft. Now a new exhibition shows these flashes of inspiration in all their intimate glory ...
Artnet

What Can a Major Museum Show of Lucian Freud Tell Us About His Market? As It Turns Out, Quite a Lot

London’s National Gallery recently opened “New Perspectives,” its centenary tribute to Lucian Freud, who was described by Robert Hughes in 1987 as “the world’s greatest living realist painter”—and was ...

This Lucian Freud exhibition starts off brilliantly but soon fizzles out

Same old? A lot about this hit-and-miss new show at the National Portrait Gallery will feel familiar; the focus is the ...
The Art Newspaper

London show highlights how drawing was at the heart of Lucian Freud’s practice

The National Portrait Gallery is exploring a less familiar aspect of the artist’s work through his archive and recently ...

Lucian Freud’s drawings show the artist at his most spontaneous and personal

From teenage sketches to etchings of his daughter Bella, an exhibition of Freud’s drawings at the National Portrait Gallery gives a fascinating and essential insight into a painter we think we know ...
Observer

Sitting for Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Longtime Assistant Describes His Meticulous Process

“If you like skin, you should find people that have a lot of it,” Lucian Freud said, according to the catalogue essay authored by Michael Auping for a show of the painter’s work opening tomorrow at ...
Post and Courier

Review: Artist Lucian Freud thoroughly portrayed in first volume of new biography

THE LIVES OF LUCIAN FREUD: The Restless Years, 1922-1968. By William Feaver. Knopf. 607 pages. $40. In this rather unusual biography of British artist Lucian Freud, the first of two volumes, the ...
THE WEEK

Lucian Freud: The Painter and His Family review – a ‘delightfully domestic’ show

In 1933, the 11-year-old Lucian Freud and his family fled Nazi Germany for Britain, said Bridget Galton in the Ham & High (London). Five years later, following Hitler’s annexation of Austria, the ...
Hyperallergic

Painter Lucian Freud Dies at 88

Renowned portraitist and grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian Freud died yesterday. His paintings of Leigh Bowery are some of the most brilliant from the late 20th C. but this tidbit from his Wikipedia ...
The Independent on MSN

Lucian Freud’s drawings show him at his most spontaneous and personal

Lucian Freud’s drawings show the artist at his most spontaneous and personal - 4/5 From teenage sketches to etchings of his daughter Bella, an exhibition of Freud’s drawings at the National Portrait G ...