Lucian Freud

Nicholas Penny

The exhibition of Lucian Freud’s paintings which has already been shown in Washington and Paris, and which moves on to Berlin in the spring, has been amplified at its current London showing with some works on paper – a foretaste of an exhibition devoted to Freud prints and drawings which will open in May at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and will then travel to four other British venues and on to three museums in the United States of America.[*] Much of this article arises from conversations which I have had with the artist whilst writing on the early drawings and since seeing the Hay ward exhibition.

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[*] Lucian Freud: Paintings, the catalogue of the Hayward exhibition, with an essay by Robert Hughes, is published by Thames and Hudson in hardback and by the South Bank Centre and Thames and Hudson in paperback (135pp., £24 and £14.00, 1 February, 0 500 09179 X and 0 86355 055 X). Lucian Freud: Works on Paper by Nicholas Penny and Robert Flynn Johnson, which is also the catalogue of the Ashmolean exhibition, is published by Thames and Hudson (127 pp., £20, 1 February, 0 500 09185 4).