Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller

Lucien Freud by Martin Gayford (Book)

About the Item

'Provoking, vital, engrossing, gorgeously produced... My art book of the year.' - Financial Times With more than 480 illustrations, this is the most comprehensive publication to date on one of the greatest painters of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Lucian Freud. Lucian Freud was one of the most significant artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and Phaidon is honoured to publish the most complete retrospective of his career to date. This sumptuous, definitive set is the result of an extraordinary collaboration between David Dawson - Director of the Lucian Freud Archive and for two decades Freud's assistant, model, and friend - author Martin Gayford, and editor Mark Holborn. Their collaboration has resulted in a book that goes beyond the work to reveal insights into the man himself. Gayford describes Freud's determination always to tell the truth about what he was recording in paint. He believed in a found beauty, not one that was imagined by an artist and then imposed on his subject. He painted what he saw, in exquisite detail, and he found it beautiful. With more than 480 illustrations, Phaidon celebrates that beauty - evoked in portraits of Freud's friends and family, his lovers, his neighbours, and others whose looks he liked, from his bookmaker to a bank robber. This is both a vital contribution to art scholarship and a gorgeous addition to the bookshelves of art lovers around the world. 616 pages. 8016 grams.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 11.38 in (28.91 cm)Depth: 3.88 in (9.86 cm)
  • Sold As:
    Set of 2
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    2018
  • Condition:
    This a brand new sealed set of books.
  • Seller Location:
    North Yorkshire, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU899639427662
More From This SellerView All
  • Lucien Rollin Architect-Decorator 1906-1993 (Book)
    Located in North Yorkshire, GB
    A hardback book with its dust jacket which is in very good condition. 127 pages with many full page colour and black & white illustrations showing examples of his beautiful furniture...
    Category

    20th Century Books

    Materials

    Paper

  • Bacon Moore: Flash and Bone by Richard Calvocoressi & Martin Harrison (Book)
    Located in North Yorkshire, GB
    In their different mediums, Henry Moore (1898 1986) and Francis Bacon (1909 1992) created unforgettable images of the human figure. The distinctive visual languages that each artist developed over more than half a century were marked by a growing simplicity and monumentality of form. Their perspective differed: Moore clung to a belief in humanism, while Bacon espoused a post-humanist, nihilistic view of the world. In expressing their visions of humanity, the two artists had very different approaches: Bacon working from the outside in, disintegrating and dissolving form; Moore from the inside out, pushing anatomical structure to the surface. If Bacon s images suggest flux, chance, and the arbitrariness of existence, Moore s...
    Category

    20th Century Books

    Materials

    Paper

  • Form by Horst (Book)
    Located in North Yorkshire, GB
    In very good condition with dust Jacket. One of a Limited First Edition of only five thousand copies published in 1992. Unpagenated, Folio. Out of Print and now scarce. The photograp...
    Category

    20th Century Books

    Materials

    Paper

  • Eiko by Eiko (Book)
    Located in North Yorkshire, GB
    This lavish book is an exposition of the innovative Japanese graphic artist and costume designer who was known for her work on stage, screen, advertising and print media. Most famous...
    Category

    20th Century Books

    Materials

    Paper

    Eiko by Eiko (Book)
    Free Shipping
  • Arcimboldo by Roland Barthes (Book)
    Located in North Yorkshire, GB
    A beautifully produced book by Franco Maria Ricci, one of a limited edition of 3,000 numbered copies, this being 388. 175 pages with tipped in color plates with additional drawings and sketches, the text is in English. Arcimboldo has become best known for his portraits of human heads made up from vegetables, plants, fruits, sea creatures and tree roots, which were greatly admired by his contemporaries and remain of great fascination to this day. each was carefully constructed and as can be seen with the main image, the Librarian...
    Category

    Antique 16th Century Books

    Materials

    Paper

  • E. Printz by Guy Bujon (Book)
    Located in North Yorkshire, GB
    This is a scarce book on the great French Art Deco designer and furniture maker Eugene Printz. He had no formal training but learned his skill...
    Category

    20th Century Books

    Materials

    Paper

You May Also Like
  • Lucian Freud Illustrated Book the Equilibriad by Wm. Samson / Limited Edition
    Located in Middletown, NY
    THE EQUILIBRIAD by William Samsons with illustrations by Lucian Freud. London: Hogarth Press, 1948. Limited Edition. 8vo, 8 5/8 x 5 5/8 in (220 x 140...
    Category

    Mid-20th Century English Books

    Materials

    Paper

  • Lucian Freud a Life
    Located in New York, NY
    A breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraits This unprecedented look at the private life of Lucian ...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Books

    Materials

    Paper

  • Mamma Milano Lessons from the Motherland Book by J.J. Martin
    Located in New York, NY
    Mamma Milano Lessons from the Motherland By: J.J. Martin Embrace female empowerment with J.J. Martin, founder of world–renowned Milanese lifestyle brand La DoubleJ...
    Category

    21st Century and Contemporary Books

    Materials

    Paper

  • Broadway Musical Martin Gottfried Large Hardcover Book
    Located in North Hollywood, CA
    Broadway Musical Martin Gottfried 1984 hardcover book.Large heavy book. A colorful tribute to the great Broadway shows of our time. Profusely illustrated in color. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Title Broadway Musicals Author Gottfried, Martin Format/Binding Hardcover Binding Hardcover Publisher Harry N. Abrams Place Of Publication NY Date Published 1984 395 illustrations, 112 in full color. Great oversized heavy coffee table art book. A true treasure of a book. This is a very large book, and not just width wise. It is very tall too. There are many pictures, a lot of them in color. They have some of the rarest flops featured toward the back of the book, and the classics are all here too. Some high points are the run-through of how they make (made) "Annie" run every night. There is also a synopsis of "Hello Dolly" which helpful since I have only seen the movie. There is a flaw though, and it is not insignificant. The author does not separate fact from opinion. Example: "Sweeney Todd does not hold a place in the theater". This book came out the same year "Sweeney Todd" did(1979), so it might be just a bit early to say that. Obviously, he is a critic, but he should have took that hat off ,and taken on the role of an author who looks at the facts.("Sweeney" is just one of the hows that gets criticized.) Colorful entertaining masterpiece with many of these Broadway Musicals some of them are THE WIZ...
    Category

    Late 20th Century American American Classical Books

    Materials

    Paper

  • Broadway Musical Martin Gottfried Large Hardcover Book 1980
    Located in North Hollywood, CA
    Broadway Musical Martin Gottfried 1980 hardcover book.Large heavy book. A colorful tribute to the great Broadway shows of our time. Profusely illustrated in color. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Title Broadway Musicals Author Gottfried, Martin Format/Binding Hardcover Binding Hardcover Publisher Harry N. Abrams Place Of Publication NY Date Published 1980 2nd printing. 395 illustrations, 112 in full color. Great oversized heavy coffee table art book. A true treasure of a book. This is a very large book, and not just width wise. It is very tall too. There are many pictures, a lot of them in color. They have some of the rarest flops featured toward the back of the book, and the classics are all here too. Some high points are the run-through of how they make (made) "Annie" run every night. There is also a synopsis of "Hello Dolly" which helpful since I have only seen the movie. There is a flaw though, and it is not insignificant. The author does not separate fact from opinion. Example: "Sweeney Todd...
    Category

    Late 20th Century North American Folk Art Books

    Materials

    Paper

  • Flair: Fashion Collected by Tina Chow Book by Richard Martin and Harold Koda
    By Rizzoli
    Located in Ferndale, MI
    The Tina Chow Fashion Couture collection includes some of the finest designers in the industry such as Fortuny, Balenciaga, Chanel, Vionnet, Dior, Lanvin, Poiret, Schiaparelli, Alaia...
    Category

    1990s North American Post-Modern Books

    Materials

    Paper

Recently Viewed

View All