Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

Author:   Martin Gayford
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN:  

9780500238752


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   06 September 2010
Replaced By:   9780500289716
Format:   Hardback
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Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud


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Lucian Freud, perhaps the world’s leading portrait painter, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. Gayford describes the process chronologically, from the day he arrived for the first sitting through to his meeting with the couple who bought the finished painting. As Freud creates a portrait of Gayford, so the art critic produces his own portrait of the notoriously private artist, recounting their wide-ranging conversations and giving a rare insight into Freud’s working practice. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs by David Dawson of Freud at work, with paintings by Freud from the 1940s to the present, and images by other artists discussed by Freud with Gayford. The result vividly conveys what it is like to be on the inside of the process of creating a painting by a great artist.

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Author:   Martin Gayford
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9780500238752


ISBN 10:   0500238758
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   06 September 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Replaced By:   9780500289716
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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Martin Gayford's elegant account of sitting for a picture by [Lucian Freud].-- The New York Times


Martin Gayford's elegant account of sitting for a picture by [Lucian Freud].


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Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator and the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable and Michelangelo. He is the author of Man with a Blue Scarf, Rendez-vous with Art and A Bigger Message. He has collaborated with David Hockney on A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney and A History of Pictures, and has co-written a volume of travels and conversations with Philippe de Montebello: Rendez-vous with Art.

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