25 Jul 2011
“.....And that impact is him.”
A user kindly sent me a link to William Feaver's appreciation of his long friendship with Lucian Freud which appeared in a UK newspaper yesterday. You can read the full article at The Guardian but here are a couple of excerpts:
"The
09 Dec 2010
Exit the King
Anyone wondering why artists represent themselves as kings – why Fouquet painted himself in 1450 as Charles VII or Ingres as Napoleon or even Lucian Freud as Queen Elizabeth II - might like to read Eugène Ionesco&rsqu
31 Oct 2010
Analyzing Freud and the Queen
Britain's press went nuts when Lucian Freud gave the Queen a tiny portrait of herself, just 9" x 6", and notably ugly at that. She had spent hours posing for him over 19 months. She could not have been amused. Now we reveal on the site, for
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