Lucian Freud : drawing into painting / Sarah Howgate.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freud, Lucian, artist.

Howgate, Sarah, contributor.

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain), host institution, issuing body.

Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Lucian--Exhibitions.

Freud, Lucian.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm

Distribution:

New York, NY : Artbook

Other Title:

Drawing into painting

Place of Publication:

London : National Portrait Gallery Publications, [2026]

Summary:

"Drawing into Painting reveals Lucian Freud's lifelong focus on the human face and form, tracing the intimate dialogue between his sketches and paintings from the 1930s to the early 21st century. Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is celebrated as one of the great figurative realist artists of the twentieth century, who devoted his artistic life to portraiture. Famously stating that 'everything is a portrait', he created intensely observed portraits of animals and plants, as well as his family members and those in his social circle and daily life. Drawing into Painting explores how drawing remained central to Freud's artistic practice throughout his life. From quick sketches to finished works in charcoal, pastel, and etching, his drawings offer a rare window into his process, revealing shifts in style, experimentation, and his evolving way of seeing. Spanning from his childhood to his final years, the book traces the unconventional path from his drawing practice to his painting, and back again. Alongside a selection of key paintings by Freud and others, the book includes conversations with David Dawson, Freud's close friend and assistant, and Bella Freud, the artist's daughter. Insightful essays by writer and curator Catherine Lampert, British Museum drawings curator Isabel Seligman, and acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín further illuminates Freud's world and legacy"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Director's foreword / by Victoria Siddall

Drawing into painting / by Sarah Howgate

Childhood drawings

'Ancient, private and rather perverse' : Lucian Freud's adolescent drawings (1939-1940) / by Tanya Bentley

Portrait of a young man

David Dawson and Sarah Howgate in conversation

Girl with roses

Girl in bed

One medium to another

Heads into naked portraits

'To portray with any degree of profundity' / by Catherine Lampert

The painter's mother

Portraits of paintings

'Drawing speaking to painting' / by Isabel Seligman

Painter and model

'Stratagems of upset' / by Colm Tóibín

People as animals

Bella Freud and Sarah Howgate in conversation

Late portrait heads.

Notes:

Statement of responsibility from spine.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, England, February 12 - May 3, 2026, and at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, June 10 - September 27, 2026.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781855148154

1855148153

9781855148253

1855148250

OCLC:

1574927242