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 ...
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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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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped (£18.95 price intact). Published by Thames & Hudson, 2010. Octavo. Black cloth boards stamped in gold with maroon endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 248 pages. ISBN: 9780500238752. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($40.00 price intact). Published by Thames & Hudson, 2010. Octavo. Navy blue cloth boards stamped in silver. Book is like new with no writing. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear. A fine copy of this unique look into Gayford's experience sitting for his iconic portrait by Freud. 247 pages. ISBN: 9780500238752. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. A Very Good copy of the First Edition with slight shelfwear; interior is clean, bright, and unmarked. Jacket has light edgewear and a touch of creasing to the spine, else Very Good. Illustrated with [63] images of many of Freud's other pieces, reproductions of David Dawson's photography of the artist at work, and works from other artists as relevant. '[This] is a book not quite like any previously written: the inside story of how it feels to pose for a remarkable artist, and be transformed into a work of art. [...] It takes one into the company of the painter for whom Picasso, Giacometti and Francis Bacon were friends and contemporaries, as were writers such as George Orwell and W.H. Auden....[A]mong the most original, enjoyable and informative publications about art of our time. ' ~ Publisher.