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Lucian Freud at the Met

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud died this week. We went to pay tribute by visiting Naked Man, Back View, a 1991–92 portrait of Leigh Bowery, the great big performance artist, seen from behind, his mounds of flesh piebald and textured with oil paint. At the Met, we discovered several other paintings on display, part of an exhibit of work by British artists after World War II. Like our favorite, they mostly show the body in repose, without costume or mask, as misshapen and awkward as when we enter the world, or when we leave it.  

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud
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Ash said…
These paintings were such a wonderful surprise. I was visiting NYC for a week and hitting a museum a day and of course the Met totally nailed it. Such wonderful paintings, it was a real sadness to have to leave them and the rest of NYC.
4:18 AM, August 03, 2011
stefan berg said…
Does anyone know when this show ends ? I have found absolutely no information about it on the MET website. (lowerdawesstudio.gmail.com)
9:04 PM, November 23, 2011
Jess and Garrett said…
It looks like the show is staying up until Dec 31:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/homage-to-lucian-freud-metropolitan-museum-of-art
10:35 AM, November 27, 2011
Anonymous said…
Hahaha. He takes so long to paint, all his models fall asleep. The girl in the last picture, her arm must have gone numb. He renders skin so beautifully. Those big feet.. I was always terribly embarrassed by my own similar proportion "errors". But maybe it doesn't really matter so much.
9:59 PM, November 08, 2013

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