Lucian Freud is always my favorite artist. Sometimes called a realist, he painted in a highly individual style, which in his later years was characterized by impasto. The book is very helpful to me since I am practicing my painting. He moved to England with his parents in 1933, and acquired British nationality in 1939. The book is in a very good condition, and arrived fast enough. He was born in Berlin, the grandson of the revolutionary psychologist Sigmund Freud, and thea son of an architect Ernst Freud and an art historian Lucie Brasch. German-born British painter, draughtsman, and etcher, a grandson of Sigmund Freud. He is the grandson of the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. He was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time.

One of the late twentieth-century's most celebrated portraitists, Freud painted only those closest to him: friends and family, wives and mistresses, and, last but not least, himself. Lucien Freud (b Berlin, 8 Dec. 1922; d London, 21 July 2011). Lucian Freud, renowned for his unflinching observations of anatomy and psychology, made even the beautiful people (including Kate Moss) look ugly. In this book I can see many of his paintings and detail as well. this is a trustable seller. highly recommended. Lucian Freud was a British artist, famous for his portraits and self-portraits painted in an expressive neo-figurative style. Lucian Freud was a German-born British painter who passed away in 2011. Lucian Freud, British artist known for his work in portraiture and the nude. Lucian Freud is known chiefly for his thickly impasto portraits – a technique of painting also used byVincent van Gogh – and figurative paintings.