A modern british master revealed.
For the first time in history the Royal Academy of Arts in London, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is bringing together Lucian Freud’s self-portraits. The exhibition will display more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turned his unflinching eye firmly on himself. One of the most celebrated painters of our time, Lucian Freud is also one of very few 20th-century artists who portrayed themselves with such consistency. Spanning nearly seven decades his self-portraits give a fascinating insight into both his psyche and his development as a painter, from his earliest portrait painted in 1939 to the final one executed 64 years later. When seen together, his portraits represent an engrossing study into the dynamic of ageing and the process of self-representation. This intensely compelling exhibition creates a unique opportunity for EXHIBITION ON SCREEN to reveal the life’s work of a master in one show.
DirectorDavid Bickerstaff
Part of
Includes: Leonardo: From the National Gallery, London, Manet: Portraying Life, Munch 150, Vermeer and Music, Matisse, Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis, Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing, The Impressionists: And the Man Who Made Them, Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse, Renoir: Reviled and Revered, The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch, I, Claude Monet, The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism, Michelangelo: Love and Death, Canaletto & the Art of Venice, David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts, Cézanne: Portraits of a Life, Degas: Passion for Perfection, Rembrandt: From the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Young Picasso, Van Gogh & Japan, Leonardo: The Works, Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait, Easter in Art, Frida Kahlo, Sunflowers, Raphael Revealed, The Danish Collector: Delacroix to Gauguin, Pissarro: Father of Impressionism, Hopper: An American Love Story, Mary Cassatt: Painting the Modern Woman, Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition, Tokyo Stories, Klimt & The Kiss, John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger, My National Gallery, London, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, Dawn of Impressionism: Paris 1874
