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Lucian Freud
Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
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culture · British painter and engraver (1922–2011) · painter · illustrator · printmaker · draftsperson · graphic artist · architectural drafter · portraitist · artist · also Lucian Freud, Lucien Freud, Lusyan Froid, Freud
Born 8 December 1922 · Died 20 July 2011 · Q154594
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2026· 5 entries
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The Guardian: Early portrait denied by Lucian Freud shown for first time after authentication
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The Guardian: Masterpieces by Klimt, Matisse and Freud set for London’s most valuable auction
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2015· 1 entry
Benefits Supervisor Resting sold for $56
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2011· 2 entries
Died 2011-07-20.
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“I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen … that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.”
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2008· 1 entry
Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), a portrait of civil servant Sue Tilley, sold for $33
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2005· 1 entry
A retrospective of Freud's work was held at the Museo Correr in Venice scheduled to coincide with the Biennale
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2001· 2 entries
Began living with a twenty-seven-year-old journalist named Emily Bearn
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Freud completed his portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, which attracted criticism of its portrayal in the British media
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1997· 3 entries
Awarded Rubenspreis (1997).
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The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art presented "Lucian Freud: Early Works", an exhibition of around 30 drawings and paintings done between 1940 and 1945
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Freud received the Rubens Prize of the city of Siegen
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1996· 1 entry
The Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal mounted a major exhibition of 27 paintings and 13 etchings, covering Freud's output to date
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit (1993).
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1988· 1 entry
Was the focal point for the BBC Omnibus programme which saw one of the few conversations with Freud ever recorded, with Omnibus director Jake Auerbach
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Companion of Honour (1983).
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1972· 1 entry
Which was arranged by his friend the artist John Wilson McCracken, whom he had met in London
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1955· 1 entry
To economist Wynne Godley), died in 2011
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1952· 1 entry
Freud eloped with Guinness heiress and writer Lady Caroline Blackwood to Paris, where they married in 1953; they divorced in 1959
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1948· 1 entry
Freud married Lorna's niece, Kitty Garman, the daughter of sculptor Jacob Epstein and socialite Kathleen Garman, born before they were married
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1944· 1 entry
By Editions Poetry London and comprised, among other drawings, a stuffed zebra and a palm tree
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1943· 1 entry
The poet and editor Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu commissioned Freud to illustrate Nicholas Moore's poetry collection The Glass Tower
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1941· 1 entry
Before being invalided out of the service in 1942
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1940· 1 entry
To Benton End, a house near Hadleigh, Suffolk
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-12-08.
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