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Lucian Freud    (British, 1922)

 Lucian Freud - Tourist (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 22 x w: 5 cm / h: 8.7 x w: 2 in
Lucian Freud
Tourist 1940
 
  

Biography
1922 Born in Berlin
1931 Came to England with his parents
1933 - 1938 Dartington Hall School near Totnes, Devon then at Bryanston
1939 Acquired British nationality
1939 - 1942 Central School of Arts and Crafts, London
East Anglican School of Painting and Drawing, Dedham under Cedric Morris
1951 Receives Purchase Prize from Arts Council of Great Britain for Interior in Paddington exhibited in Sixty Paintings for '51 as part of the Festival of Britain.
1949 - 1954 Visiting tutor at the Slade School of Fine Art.
1993 Awarded the Order of Merit.

Exhibitions
2008 Major Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Small Format, Faggionato Fine Arts, London (England)
2007 Paiting Now! - Back to Figuration, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2006 Popart and after, Galerie Haas AG, Zurich
2006 PAPER, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005 Creative Tenison - British Art 1900-1950, The Fine Art Society, London (England)
2004 Lucian Freud: Etchings 1964-2004, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Scotland -solo
Matisee to Freud: A Critic’s Choice, The Alexander Walker Bequest, The British Museum, London
Fresh Works on Paper, 5th Anniversary Exhibition, James Kelly Contemporary, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, Linbudy Galleries, London (catalogue)
2003 Lucian Freud: Drawings 1940, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Drawings 1940, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue) -solo
Important Works on Paper & Ceramics, Rex Irwin, Sydney, Australia
Portraiture, Karyn Love Grove Gallery, Los Angeles
2002 Tate Britain, London; Traveled to Fundació “la Caixa,” Barcelona; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) -solo
Lucian Freud, Prints, Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen, Germany (catalogue) -solo
The Nude in Twentieth - Century Art, Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany
2001 Lucian Freud, Naked Portraits, Works from the 1940s to the 1990s, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (catalogue) -solo
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
2000 Etchings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue) -solo
Lucian Freud: Recent Work, 1997-2000, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York (catalogue)-solo
A New Painting, White Cube, London -solo
Twentieth-Century Art, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York
La Mirada Fuerte: Pintura Figurativa de Londres, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico
The School of London and Their Friends: The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Traveled to Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase (catalogue)
Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London (catalogue)
Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Blaine Fine Art, London (catalogue)
1999 Lucian Freud, Etchings from the 1990s, Marlborough Graphics, Ltd., London (catalogue) -solo
Lucian Freud, Etchings from the Paine Webber Art Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut; Traveled to Museumof Contemporary Art, San Diego; Seattle Art Museum; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalogue) -solo
Regarding Beauty, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Traveled to Haus der Kunst, Munich (catalogue)
1998 Lucian Freud, Some New Paintings, Tate Gallery, London (catalogue) -solo
Lucian Freud, Paintings and Drawings, Theo Waddington Fine Art, London -solo
L’Ecole de Londres: de Bacon á Bevan, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Paris; Traveled to Santiago de Compostella, Spain; and Vienna (catalogue)
Sargent to Freud: Modern British Painting and Drawing in theBeaverbrook Art Collection, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada; Traveled to Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom; and Canada House, London (catalogue)
1997 Lucian Freud, Early Works, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (catalogue) -solo
Lucian Freud, Radierungen, Rubenspreis der Stadt Siegen, Haus Orienstrasse-Adolf-Sänger-Stiftung, Ausstellungsforum des Siegerlandmuseums, Siegen, Germany (catalogue) -solo
1996 Thinking Print: From Books to Billboards, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987 - 1988 Retrospective exhibition organised by the British Council at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, and travelling to Paris, London and Berlin; the first major representation of Freud's work shown outside Britain.
1974 First retrospective exhibition, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain at the Hayward Gallery, London, and touring.
1954 Represents Britain at the 27th Venice Biennale of Art with Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon.
1944 First one-man exhibition at Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery.
Public Collections
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Museo Botero, Santafé de Bogota, Colombia
BnF Site Richelieu, Paris, France
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany
Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, Netherlands
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham (England), UK
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex (England), UK
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (Scotland), UK
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (England), UK
Hiscox Art Projects, London (England), UK
NPG - National Portrait Gallery, London (England), UK
Tate Britain, London (England), UK
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (England), UK
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (England), UK
Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, Warwickshire (England), UK
SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England), UK
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA, USA
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
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