1922 - 2011, Born in Berlin, DE Lived and worked in London, UK
EDUCATION
1943 Goldsmiths University of London, London, UK
1939 Cedric Morris’ East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, Dedham, UK
AWARDS
1993 Ordre du Mérite
1983 Order of the Companions of Honour
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Lucian Freud: Drawings, Blain|Southern, London, UK; Acquavella Galleries, New York, US Lucian Freud Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Fort Worth, Texas, US
2010 Lucian Freud: L’Atelier, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
2009 Interjections: Lucian Freud Still Life, Getty Center, Los Angeles, US Lucian Freud: Works on Paper, James Hyman Gallery, London, UK Lucian Freud: Etchings, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, UK Lucian Freud: Drawings 1940, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, AU
2008 Lucian Freud: Early Works 1940-58, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, UK
2007 Lucian Freud, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, IR; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, NL Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US About Men: Lucian Freud, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, AU
2006 Lucian Freud: Nudes, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, AU Lucian Freud: Recent Works, Acquavella Galleries, New York, US
2005 Lucian Freud, Museo Correr, Venice, IT Lucian Freud: Etchings 1946-2005, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, UK Lucian Freud: Etchings, Faggionato Fine Art, New York, US
2004 Lucian Freud In the Studio, (photographs by David Dawson), National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Lucian Freud: Latest Paintings, The Wallace Collection, London, UK Lucian Freud: Etchings, 1946-2004, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK Lucian Freud: Recent Paintings and Etchings, Acquavella Galleries, New York, US
2003 Lucian Freud: Drawings 1940, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US Lucian Freud: Etchings 1982-2002, Region Art Gallery, Newcastle , AU
2002 Lucian Freud (retrospective), Tate Britain, London, UK, Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, ES; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US Lucian Freud: Recent Etchings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, US Lucian Freud: Graphik/Prints, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen, DE
2001 Lucian Freud: Recent Etchings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, US
2000 Lucian Freud, Naked Portraits, Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt-am-Main, DE Lucian Freud: Recent Work 1997-2000, Acquavella Galleries, New York, US Lucian Freud: A New Painting, White Cube Gallery, London, UK Lucian Freud Etchings 1982-2000, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, AU Lucian Freud: Etchings, Ode to Pluto, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US Lucian Freud: Etchings from the 1990s, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, UK
1999 Lucian Freud: Etchings from the Paine Webber Art Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Seattle Art Museum; University of Houston, Blaffer Gallery; Stanford University, Iris &B. Gerald Cantor Centre for Visual Arts; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US Lucian Freud, Recent Etchings 1995-1999, Marlborough Graphics, London, UK
1998 Lucian Freud: Some New Paintings, Tate Gallery, London, UK Lucian Freud: Paintings and Drawings, Theo Waddington Fine Art, London, UK
1997 Lucian Freud: Early Works, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK Lucian Freud: Radierungen/Etchings, 9th award of the Rubens Prize, Siegen, DE
1996 Lucian Freud, A Selection: Paintings and Works on Paper, Davis and Langdale, New York, US Lucian Freud: Paintings and Etchings, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK Lucian Freud: New Work, Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York, US
1994 Lucian Freud at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
1993 Lucian Freud: Recent Work, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US; Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES Lucian Freud: Early Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US Lucian Freud: Recent Drawings and Etchings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US Lucian Freud, Paul Thek: Etchings, Kendall Campus Art Gallery-Miami Dade Community College, Miami, US
1992 Lucian Freud: Paintings and Works on Paper 1942-1991, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi; Otani Memorial Museum, Nishinomiya; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, JP; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, AU Lucian Freud: The Complete Etchings 1946-1992, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, US
1991 Lucian Freud: Dipinti e opere su carta 1940-1991, Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome; Castello Sforzesco, Salle Viscontea, Milan, IT; Tate Liverpool, UK Lucian Freud: Etchings 1946-1990, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, JP Lucian Freud: The Complete Etchings 1946-1991, Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London, UK
1990 Lucian Freud: L’oeuvre gravé, Berggruen & Cie, Paris, FR
1989 Lucian Freud: Etchings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
1988 Lucian Freud: Works on Paper, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK; Fine Arts Museum San Francisco, CA; Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Saint Louis Museum of Art, Missouri; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Lucian Freud: Etchings 1982-1988, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, AU Lucian Freud: Paintings 1947-87, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK Lucian Freud: Paintings, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., US; Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’art Moderne, Paris, FR; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Neue National Galerie, Staatliche Museen Stiftung Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Berlin, DE
1987 Lucian Freud: Etchings, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, JP The Artist’s Eye: Lucian Freud (An Exhibition of The National Gallery Paintings Selected by the Artist), The National Gallery, London, UK
1984 Lucian Freud: A Painting and Etchings, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, JP
1982 Lucian Freud, Anthony d’Offay, London, UK
1979 Lucian Freud, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, JP
1978 Lucian Freud: Recent Paintings, Anthony d’Offay, London, UK
1974 Lucian Freud, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Pages from a Sketchbook of 1941, Anthony d’Offay, London, UK
1972 Lucian Freud: Recent Paintings, Anthony d’Offay, London, UK
1968 Lucian Freud: Recent Work, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
1963 Lucian Freud: Recent Work, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
1958 Lucian Freud: Paintings, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
1948 Lucian Freud, London Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 On View: Works on Paper, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, UK Works on Paper, Faggionato Fine Art, London, UK Lucian Freud and Paula Rego: Graphische Arbeiten, Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Dusseldorf, DE
2008 Important Drawings, Prints and Ceramics, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, AU Modern British Art 2008, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, UK
2007 A Selection of Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, US The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Fundación Caja, Madrid, ES; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Woth, Texas, US Painting now! Back to Figuration, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL An Incomplete World, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU The Naked Portrait 1900 to 2007, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK Summer Selection, Forum Gallery Inc, New York, US Various Artists: On View, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, UK Paper Baglady and Other Stories, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, US Small Format, Faggionato Fine Art, London, UK Major Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, US Lucian Freud and Andrew Tift “Portrait of Kitty”, 1948-2006, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
2006 Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples, 1960 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Matisse to Freud, A Critic’s Choice: The Alexander Walker Bequest, Usher Gallery, Lincoln; New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester; Harewood House Trust; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK The Painter’s Garden: Design, Inspiration and Delight, Städel Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, DE Important Works on Paper and Sculptures, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, AU Pop Art and After, Galerie Haas AG, Zurich, CH
2005 Creative Tension: British Art 1900-1950, Gallery Oldham, Oldham, UK; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton; Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale; Fine Art Society, London, UK Important Works on Paper and Sculptures, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, AU 2004 Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, AU Art of the Garden, The Garden in British Art, 1800 to Present Day, Tate Britain, London, UK XIX & XX Century: Master Paintings and Sculptures, Acquavella Galleries, New York, US
2003 Fresh Works on Paper, 5th Anniversary Exhibition, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, US Works on Paper & Important Ceramics, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, AU Portraiture, Karyn Love Grove Gallery, Los Angeles, US Trees, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, AU
2002 Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, DE; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, FR The Nude in Twentieth Century Art, Kunsthalle im Emden, Emden, DE
2001 Centenary Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK British Etchings, Whistler to Freud, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
2000 The School of London and their Friends: The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians,Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, US La Mirada fuerte, Pintura figurative de Londres, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Museo de Monterrey, MX Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Paintings and Selected Drawings, James Hyman Gallery, London, UK Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Blains Fine Art, London, UK Encounters: New Art from Old, The National Gallery, London, UK Le Nu au XXe siècle, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, FR
1999 Regarding Beauty, A View of the Late Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., US; Haus de Kunst, Munich, DE Willem de Kooning, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Lucian Freud, Katharina Fritsch, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US L’Ecole de Londres: de Bacon á Bevan, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillo, Paris, FR; Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostella, ES; Museum Hundertwasser, Vienna, AT
1998 Sargent to Freud: Modern British Painting and Drawing in the Beaverbrook Art Collection, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, CA; Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
1997 Treasure Island, Centro Arte Moderna, Lisbon, PT
1996 Thinking Print: from Books to Billboards 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
1995 Bacon-Freud: Expressions, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, FR From London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Kitaj, Scottish National Art Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, LUX; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, FR; Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, ES Identity & Alterity: Figures of the Body 1895/1995, XLVI Venice Biennale, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT
1994 Double Reality: The “School of London”, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, NO
1993 Seven British Painters, Selected Masters of Post-War Art: Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, UK
1992 British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
1991 The Modern Still Life: Selections from the Drawing Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US From Bacon to Now: The Outsider in British Figuration, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, IT Like the Face of the Moon, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton; Stoke on Trent Museum and Art Gallery; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK Art of the Forties, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Artist’s Sketchbooks, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US In Human Terms, Stiebel Modern, New York, US The Transformation of Appearance: Andrews, Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
1990 Avantgarde British Printmaking, British Museum, London, UK For a Wilder World: Sixty Works in the British Council Collection, Musee National d’Histoire et d’Art, LU; Ukranian Museum of Fine Arts, Kiev; St. Cyril and Methodius International Foundation, Sofia; Museo National de Belles Artes, Buenos Aires, AR The British Imagination: Twentieth Century Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, US The Pursuit of the Real: British Figurative Painting from Sickert to Bacon, City Art Gallery, Manchester; The Barbican Art Gallery, London; Glasgow City Art Gallery; Kelvingrove, Glasgow, UK Frank Auerbach, Richard Deacon, Lucian Freud, Saatchi Collection, London, UK Masterpieces from the Arts Council Collection: 20th Century British Paintings, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, JP Glasgow’s Great British Art Exhibition, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, UK
1989 Portrait of the Artist/Artists’ Portraits Published by Art News & Review 1949 – 1960, Tate Gallery, London, UK Important Works on Paper, The Lefevre Gallery, London, UK
1988 100 Years of Art in Britain, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK Monet to Freud, Sothebys, London, UK The British Picture, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, US Works on Paper by Contemporary Artists, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, UK Contemporary Graphics, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, Graphics Gallery, London, UK The Magic Mirror Dada and Surrealism from a Private Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK Die Spur des Anderen, Haine-Haus, Hamburg, DE The Face, The Arkansas Art Centre, Little Rock, US
1987 A School of London: Six Figurative Painters, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, DK; Museo d’Arte Moderna Ca’Pesar, Venice, IT; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, DE
British Art in the Twentieth Century: The Modern Movement and After, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK A Paradise Lost: the Neo – Romantic Imagination in Britain, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
1986 Forty Years of Modern Art 1945 – 1985, The Tate Gallery, London, UK Studies of the Nude, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, UK Artist and Model, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, UK Contrariwise: Surrealism and Britain 1930 – 1936, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, UK
1985 Carnegie International 1985, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, US The British Show, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne; National Art Gallery, Wellington, AU A Singular Vision: Paintings of the Figure by Contemporary British Artists, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery, Wolverton; Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Cooper Gallery, Barnsley; South London Gallery, London, UK
1984 The Proper Study: Contemporary Figurative Paintings from Britain, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi; Jehangir Nicholson Museum of Modern Art, National Centre for Performing Arts Bombay, IN A Circle: Portraits and Self – Portraits by Arikha, Auerbach, Kitaj, Freud, Marlborough Graphics Gallery, London, UK Capital Painting: Pictures from Corporate Collections in the City of London, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK The Hard-Won Image: Traditional Method and Subject in Recent British Art, The Tate Gallery, London, UK Creation: Modern Art and Nature, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney, AU John Craxton and Lucian Freud, Christopher Hull Gallery, London, UK
1983 As of Now, Peter Moores’ Project 7: An Exhibition Selected by William Feaver, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK In Honor of De Kooning, Xavier Fourcade Inc, New York, US British Salutes New York: Paintings and Sculpture by Contemporary British Artists, Marlborough Gallery, New York, US Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
1982 Aspects of British Art Today, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi; National Museum of Fine Arts, Osaka; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukouka; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, JP
1981 Eight Figurative Artists, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, US
A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1979 The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Laing Art Gallery and Halton Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, co organised with the City Museum and Art Gallery, Arnolfini Gallery, UK Treasures from Chatsworth: the Devonshire Inheritance, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; The Fine Arts Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, US This Knot of Life (Part I): Painting and Drawings by British Artists’, L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, US
1978 25 from 51: 25 Paintings from the Festival of Britain, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK 20th Century Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
1977 Real Life. Peter Moores’, Liverpool Project 4, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK British Painting 1952-1977, Royal Academy of Arts London, UK
1976 The Human Clay. An Exhibition Selected by K.B. Kitaj, Haywood Gallery, London, UK (Touring exhibition organised by the Arts Council) European Painting in the Seventies; New Work by Sixteen Artists, Los Angeles County Museum; Elvehjem Art Centre, Madison (Wisconsin), US
1975 British Exhibition, Art 6 “75”, Schweizer Münstermesse, Basel, CH Drawings of People: An Exhibition of Drawings Selected for the Arts Council by Patrick George, Touring exhibition organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, UK English Portraits, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, JP
1974 La Ricerca dell’ Identitá, Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolours, (1 work), Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, UK
1971 Snap, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
1963 British Painting in the Sixties, Tate Gallery, London and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Manchester; Glasgow, UK; Zurich, CH (Exhibition organised by the Contemporary Art Society) The Dunn International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, CA, US; Tate Gallery, London, UK
1962 British Self Portraits from Sickert to the Present Day, The Arts Council of Great Britain, London; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Leeds, Birmingham; Leicester; Salford; Guilford; Bournemouth, UK
1960 Modern British Portraits, Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge; Lang Art Gallery Newcastle; Torre Abbey, Torquay; Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham; Museum and Art Gallery, Newport; Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton, (exhibition organised by The Arts Council), UK
1955 Daily Express Young Artist’s Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London, UK 1954 Recent British Drawings, Institute of Contemporary Arts Gallery (ICA), London, UK XXVII Venice Biennale, British Pavilion, Lucian Freud, Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon, Venice, IT
1953 Portraits by Contemporary British Artists, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, UK
1952 Contemporary Drawings from 12 Countries 1945-1952, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US Recent Trends in Realist Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK Lucian Freud: New Paintings, Martin Froy: First Exhibition, Hanover Gallery, London, UK
1951 60 Paintings for “51”, Arts Council – Festival of Britain, London, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham; City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK 21 Modern British Painters, Vancouver Art Gallery; Seattle; San Jose; San Francisco; Salt Lake City; Portland, US (Exhibition organised by the British Council) British Painting 1925-1950: First Anthology, New Burlington Galleries, London; Manchester City Art Gallery, UK (Exhibition organised by the British Council and the Manchester City Art Gallery for the festival Britain)
1950 London-Paris: New Trends in Painting and Sculpture. An Exhibition of the work of 16 Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), New Burlington Galleries, London, UK Work choices, Hanover Gallery, London, UK I Bienale do Museu de Arte Moderna, Biennale de São Paulo, BR Lucian Freud: Recent Work, Roger Vieillard: Engravings, Hanover Gallery, London, UK
1948 La Jeine Peinture en Grand-Bretagne, Galerie René Drouin, Paris, FR (Exhibition co-hosted with the British Council) Forty Years of Modern Art 1907-1947: A Selection from British Collections, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK Lucian Freud, James Gleeson, Robert Klippel, John Pemberton, Cawthra Mulock, London Gallery, London, UK
1947 Quindici Pittori Ingelsi, Studio d’Arte Palma, Rome, IT (Exhibition organised by the British Council) Recent Paintings and Drawings by John Craxton and Lucian Freud, London Gallery, London, UK
1946 Recent Paintings by Ben Nicholson, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, Robert Colquhoun, John Craxton, Lucian Freud, Robert MacBryde, Julian Trevelyan, Lefevre Gallery, London, UK
1944 Exhibition with Felix Kelly and Julian Trevelyan, Lefevre Gallery, London, UK
1943 New Year Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Leicester Galleries, London, UK
1942 New Year Exhibition: Modern French Pictures from an English Private Collection, Contemporary English Art, Leicester Galleries, London, UK Imaginative Art since the War, Leicester Galleries, London, UK Contemporary British Paintings, Lefevre Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2011 Lucian Freud: Drawings, Blain|Southern, London, UK; Acquavella Galleries, New York, US
2010 Lucian Freud: L’Atelier, Éditions Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR Lucian Freud Early Works 1940-58, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, UK Martin Gayford, Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, Thames & Hudson, UK
2008 Sebastian Smee and Richard Calvocoressi, Freud on Paper, Jonathan Cape
2007 Lucian Freud, The Painter’s Etchings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, UK The Naked Portrait 1900 to 2007, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK Lucian Freud, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IR Sebastian Smee, Lucian Freud, Taschen William Feaver, Lucian Freud, Rizzoli
2006 Sebastian Smee, (with photographs by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson), Freud at Work, Random House
2005 Sebastian Smee, Lucian Freud 1996-2005, Jonathan Cape
2004 Lucian Freud, Etchings 1946-2004, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
2003 Lucian Freud: Drawings 1940, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
2002 Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, DE Lucian Freud, Tate Publishing, London, UK Lucian Freud, Graphik/Prints, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen, DE William Feaver, Lucian Freud, Tate Publishing
2000 Lucian Freud, Naked Portraits, Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, Hatje Cantz, Otsfildern, DE Lucian Freud, Etchings, Ode to Pluto, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US Le Nu XXe siècle, Fondation Maeght, Sain-Paul, FR Encounters New Art from Old, The National Gallery, London, UK Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Paintings and Selected Drawings, James Hyman Gallery, London, UK
1999 Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., US Lucian Freud: Etchings from the Paine Webber Art Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, US
1998 L’École de London: de Bacon à Bevan, Fondation Dina Vierny- Musée Mayllol, Paris, FR
1997 Lucian Freud, Radierungen, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, DE Treasure Island, Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigão, Lisbon, ES Lucian Freud, Early Works, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK Robert Hughes, Lucian Freud, revised edition, Thames & Hudson
1996 Lucian Freud, Paintings and Etchings, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK Bernard Bruce, and Derek Birdsall, Lucian Freud, Jonathan Cape
1995 From London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitaj, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK Bacon-Freud, Expressions, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, FR Identity and Alterity: Figures of the Body 1895/1995, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT Craig Hartley, The Etchings of Lucian Freud: A Catalogue Raisonné, Marlborough Graphics
1994 Double Reality, The School of London, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Modern Kunst, Oslo, NO
1993 Lucian Freud, Recent Drawings and Etchings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US Lucian Freud, Early Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
Lucian Freud: Recent Work, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1992 British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem/British Council, London, UK Lucian Freud, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
1991 Lucian Freud, Dipinti e opere su carta 1940-1991, Arnoldo Mondadori Arte, Milan, IT Artist’s Sketchbooks, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US Art of the Forties, The Museum of Modern Art’, New York, US John Gruen, The Artist Observed: 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists, A Cappella Books
1990 For a Wider World: Sixty Works in the British Council Collection, The Council, London, UK Avantgarde British Printmaking 1914-1960, British Museum, London, UK Lucian Freud, L’oeuvre grave, Berggruen & Cie, Paris, FR The Pursuit of the Real, British Figurative Painting from Sickert to Bacon, Lund Humphries, London/Manchester Art Galleries, UK
1989 Portraits of the Artist/Artists Portraits Published by Art News and Review, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1988 The Face, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, US The Magic Mirror, Dada and Surrealism from a Private Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK Lucian Freud, Works on Paper, Thames & Hudson, New York, US
1987 A School of London: Six Figurative Painters, The British Council, London, UK A Paradise Lost: the Neo-Romantic Imagination of Britain, 1935-1955, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK Robert Hughes, Lucian Freud, Paintings, Thames & Hudson
1986 Studies of the Nude, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, UK Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-1985, Tate Gallery, London, UK British Art in the 20th Century: the Modern Movement, Prestel Publishing, Munich, DE
1985 Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, US The British Show, The Gallery, Sydney, AU
1984 The Proper Study: Contemporary Figurative Painting from Britain, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi, IN Creation: Modern Art and Nature, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK The Hard-Won Image: Traditional Method and Subject in Recent British Art, The Tate Gallery, London, UK
1982 Gowing, Lawrence Lucian Freud, Thames & Hudson
1981 Eight Figurative Painters, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, US A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1979 The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
1976 The Human Clay, An Exhibition Selected by R,B, Kitaj, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1975 European Painting in the Seventies: New Work by Sixteen Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
1974 La Ricerca dell’identità, Electa, Venice, IT Lucian Freud, The Arts Council, London, UK
1970 Zeitgenossen, Das Geischt unserer-Gesellschaft im Spiegel der heutigen Kunst, Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, DE
1948 La Jeune Peinture en Grande-Bretagne, Galerie René Drouin, Paris, FR
SELECT ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
2011 "Lucian Freud, Obituary", The Times, 22 July "Lucian Freud, Painter, died on July 20th, aged 88", The Economist, 30 July "Lucian Freud, OM", The Telegraph, 21 July Laura Cumming, "Lucian Freud: life writ large", The Guardian, 22 July William Feaver, "Lucien Freud: friend, good cook and man of very rude letters", The Observer, 24 July William Grimes, “Lucian Freud, Figurative Painter Who Redefined Portraiture, Is Dead at 88”, The New York Times, 21 July Catherine Lampert, “Lucian Freud obituary”, The Guardian, 22 July Stephen Miller, “Painter”s “Naked Portraits” Depicted Friends, Relatives”, The Wall Street Journal, 22 July Rachel Spence, ““Unrivalled interpreter of human flesh” Lucian Freud dies”, The Financial Times, 21 July
2010 “Lucian Freud: The painter in his studio“, The Economist, 23 September
2008 Simon Edge, “Freud the Lothario“, Daily Express, 16 May “Lucian Freud”s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping sells for record $33m“, The Times, 14 May Pilar Ordovas, and William Paton “Lucian Freud, Girl Reading”/”Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud”, Christie”s auction catalogue, 19 October
2007 Roberta Smith, “Lucian Freud Stripped Bare“, The New York Times, 14 December
2006 Martin Gayford, “Why Don”t You Etch?”, Apollo, January Martin Gayford, “Freud”s Animals“, Apollo, 1 November
2005 Martin Gayford, “It’s Me Looking at Him Looking at Me”, Apollo, August “Face to face with Freud“, The Sunday Times, 22 May
2004 “Rosie Millard: Portrait of the forgotten children“, The Sunday Times, 11 April Martin Gayford, “Freud Laid Bare”, The Daily Telegraph, 13 March Martin Gayford, “Captured by Lucian Freud”, The Daily Telegraph, 2 August Martin Gayford, “Face Off: Seeing through the Eyes of Lucian Freud”, Modern Painters, Autumn
2002 William Feaver, “Seeing through the Skin”, The Guardian, 18 May
2000 Sebastian Smee, “Master of Reinvention”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 July Martin Gayford,”A Physical Truth: What Lucian Freud Sees in Chardin”, Modern Painters, Summer Michael Kimmelman, “Unwavering Scrutiny of the Being within the Skin”, The New York Times, 14 April
1999 Richard Cork, “The Family Way”, The Times Magazine, 27 March Nathan Kernan, “Flesh and Ink: The Etching of Lucian Freud”, Art on Paper, May-June
1998 William Feaver, “Pin-up”, The Observer Life, 17 May Leigh Bowery, “On Lucian Freud 1993”, Leigh Bowery, Violette Editions, December Bruce Bernard, “Lucian Freud: Large Interior W11 (after Watteau)”, Sotheby’s auction catalogue, May Bruce Bernard, “Brush with a Friend”, The Independent on Sunday, 31 May John Spurling, “Portrait of the artist as a happy man”, The Independent, 13 December Tim Hilton, “Grand Master Flash”, The Independent on Sunday, 31 May
1997 Jeffrey Hogrefe, “Lucian Freud Bio Killed Amid Much Heavy Breathing“, The New York Observer, 14 December
1996 William Feaver, “The Naked Eye”, The Observer Life, 23 June
1995 Richard Cork, “The Full Picture”, The Times Magazine, 17 June Michael Kimmelman, “Through the Eyes of Lucian Freud”, The New York Times, 17 December Marc Le Bot, “Francis Bacon/Lucian Freud, Violences jumelles”, Cimaise, June-August Michael Peppiatt, “A School or not a School”, Modern Painters, Summer
1994 Marc Balakjian, “25 Years of Studio Prints”, Printmaking Today, Summer Volume Gerrit Henry, “Lucian Freud: Un cri de spleen”, Print Collector”s Newsletter, April Linda Nochlin, “Frayed Freud”, Artforum, March
1993 William Feaver, “Body language”, The Observer Magazine, August Bruce Bernard, “The Fugitive Subject”, The Independent on Sunday, 5 September William Feaver, “Inside Freud”s Mind”, Artnews, September Martin Gayford, “The Duke, His Wife and the Male Stripper”, Modern Painters, Autumn Anne de Charmant, “Lucian Freud ou la vérité nue”, Museart, Autumn Edition John Richardson, “Paint Becomes Flesh”, The New Yorker, 13 December Robert Hughes, “The Fat Lady Sings”, Time, 27 December Michael Kimmelman, “Lucian Freud: The Self Exposed”, The New York Times, 17 December
1992 William Feaver, “The Artist out of His Cage”, The Observer: Review, December Craig Hartley, “Freud and Auerbach: Recent Work”, Print Quarterly, March
1991 Richard Cork, “Le portrait moderne en Grande-Bretagne: innovation et tradition”, Art Studio, Summer
1989 John Russell, “A Wild Card Who Is Not For Puny Nature”, The New York Times, 28 May
1988 Laurence Debecque, “Lucian Freud au Centre Pompidou”, Opus International, January-February Robert Storr, “In the Flesh: Lucian Freud”, Art in America, May Michel Gibson,”Sous le regard de Freud”, Beaux-Arts, January
1987 William Feaver, “Artist’s Dialogue: Lucian Freud”, Architectural Digest, July Jean Clair, “Restoring the Paint-Flesh Ritual”, Art International, Autumn Edition Timothy Hyman, “Mapping London’s Other Landscape”, Art International, Autumn Sandra Miller, “People by Lucian Freud”, Artforum, October Jean Clair, “De l”École de Paris à l”École de Londres”, Connaissance des Arts, December Arikha Avigdor, “An Offshore Glance at British Painting”, Art international, Autumn Edition Frank Auerbach (Interviewed by Michael Peppiatt) “Going Against the Grain”, Art International, Autumn
Francis Bacon (interviewed by Michael Peppiatt) “Reality Conveyed by a Lie”, Art International, Autumn John Russell, “A Painter”s Insights into Body and Soul”, The New York Times, 27 September RB Kitaj (interviewed by Michael Peppiatt) “A Diaspora in London”, Art International, Autumn Michael Peppiatt,”Could There Be a School of London?”, Art International, Autumn Thomas West, “The School of Experience”, Art International, Autumn
1986 Matthew Marks, “The Graphic Work of Lucian Freud”, Print Quarterly, December Roger Bevan, “Freud’s Last Etchings”, Print Quarterly, December Volume
1984 Michael Peppiatt, “Lucian Freud à l”intérieur d”une oeuvre”, Connaissance des arts, March
1983 Michael Peppiatt, “Lucian Freud”, Art International, January-March
1978 Lawrence Gowing, “Mother, by Lucian Freud” , The Sunday Times Magazine, 12 February
1974 William Feaver, “Lucian Freud: The Analytical Eye” , The Sunday Times Magazine, February
1971 John Russell, “Lucian Freud – Clairvoyeur”, Art in America, January-February
1948 David Sylvester, "Les problèmes du peintre: Paris-London 1947”, L”Âge noveau
FILM AND RADIO BROADCASTS
2010 Small Gestures in Bare Rooms, film by Tim Meara, Produced on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Lucian Freud, L’Atelier’, Portland Green Production Company
2009 Inside Job, film by David Dawson, Based on conversations between Lucian Freud, John Richardson and David Dawson, Illuminations
2007 Lucian Freud, ‘Grand Art’, scripted and directed by Hector Obalk, ARTE France
2004 Lucian Freud: Portraits, film by Jake Auerbach, Jake Auerbach Films Ltd
1991 Third Ear, conversation between Lucian Freud and William Feaver, BBC Radio 3
1988 Listen to Lucian Freud, conversation with William Feaver on the occasion of the exhibition of Freud’s works at the Hayward Gallery in 1974, BBC Radio 4
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, AU National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, CA Museo Botero, Bogota, CO Tate Britain, London, UK National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US