The Credit Suisse Exhibition Lucian Freud: New Perspectives

The National Gallery will stage a landmark exhibition to mark the centenary of the birth of the great 20th-century artist Lucian Freud (1922–2011  October 1, 2022 to January 22, 2022.

This first major survey of his paintings for 10 years will bring together a large selection of his most important works from across seven decades – spanning early works such as

Image: Lucian Freud, 'Girl with Roses', 1947-8. Courtesy of the British Council Collection. Photo © The British Council © The Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images

 'Girl with Roses' (British Council Collection) from the 1940s; to 

'Reflection with Two Children (Self-Portrait)' (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid) in the 1960s and right through to his famous late works.

With paintings of the powerful, such as

HM Queen Elizabeth II c.1999-2001 Lucian Freud
Royal Collection Trust 2012 (C) The Lucian Freud Archive

 'HM Queen Elisabeth II' (c.1999-2001, lent by Her Majesty The Queen from the Royal Collection) the artist positioned himself in the tradition of historic Court Painters, such as Rubens (1577-1640) or Velázquez (1599-1660), all the while paying unflinching attention to everyday sitters, including his own mother, poignantly documented at the end of her life.

Freud often framed his subjects in domestic settings and in his paint-splattered studio, a place that became both stage and subject of his paintings in its own right. Showing how Freud's practice changed throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, the exhibition culminates in some of Freud's monumental nude portraits, revelling in the representation of the human form.
The Credit Suisse Exhibition – Lucian Freud: New Perspectives will include more than 60 loans from museums and major private collections around the world including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate; the British Council Collection; London and the Arts Council Collection, London.

A devoted connoisseur of European painting and regular visitor since his earliest days in London, Lucian Freud had a close association with the National Gallery. ‘I use the gallery as if it were a doctor,’ Freud told the journalist Michael Kimmelman. ‘I come for ideas and help – to look at situations within paintings, rather than whole paintings. Often these situations have to do with arms and legs, so the medical analogy is actually right.’*

In 1987, he curated an edition of the Gallery’s famous 'Artist’s Eye' exhibitions. Selecting nearly thirty masterpieces from Chardin to Vuillard, the artist wrote: ‘What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.’

For 'Encounters - New Art from Old' (2000), for which the National Gallery invited 25 artists to pick images from the permanent collection to engage with and create new work, Freud chose Chardin's The Young Schoolmistress as his inspiration for his etching After Chardin.
In the 2016 exhibition Painters' Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck the artist’s 

Self Portrait: Reflection' (2002) 

and the nude portrait, 'After Breakfast' (2001) were displayed alongside Corot’s Italian Woman, or Woman with Yellow Sleeve (L'Italienne) (about 1870.) The Corot, from Freud’s own collection was then given to the Gallery following the artist’s death through the Acceptance in Lieu scheme.

He also supported the successful 2008 fundraising campaign by the National Gallery and National Galleries of Scotland to jointly acquire Titian’s Diana and Actaeon (1556–9) and Diana and Callisto (1556–9), saying:

’How is it that these paintings, which are as effortless as Matisse, affect you more than any tragedy? Everything they contain is there for the viewer's pleasure. It hardly matters what is going on. The water, the dogs, the people, though they are involved with each other, are there to please us. To me, these are simply the most beautiful pictures in the world. Once you've seen them you want to see them again and again.’

The Credit Suisse Exhibition – Lucian Freud: New Perspectives is curated by Daniel F. Herrmann, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Projects at the National Gallery in collaboration with Paloma Alarcó, Chief Curator of Modern Painting, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

Dr Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery, says: ’The Freud centenary exhibition at the National Gallery offers the opportunity to reconsider the artist's achievement in the broader context of the tradition of European painting. He was a frequent visitor to the Gallery whose paintings challenged and inspired him.’

Daniel F. Herrmann, Curator of 'The Credit Suisse Exhibition – Lucian Freud: New Perspectives', says: ’With an unflinching eye and an uncompromising commitment to his work, Freud created figurative masterpieces that continue to inspire contemporary artists today. His practice has often been overshadowed by biography and celebrity. In this exhibition we offer new perspectives on the artist’s work looking closely at Freud’s mastery of painting itself and the contexts in which it developed.

The exhibition is organised by the National Gallery and the Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid. It will be shown at the Thyssen from 14 February 2023 to 18 June 2023, following its display at the National Gallery.’

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*Getty Museum * *October 19, 2021 through January 9, 2022* *Morgan Library & Museum * *February 2022* Simon George of Cornwall, about 1535-40, Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98 – 1543). Mixed technique on panel. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main In the early 1500s, if you wanted to impress people with your good looks and accomplishments, a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger was a sure way to astonish them. In early 16th-century Basel, Switzerland, and Tudor England, Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/98–1543) created captivating portraits for a wide range of pa... read more
Art History News5 weeks ago
Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle.

* Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York* *Through September 5, 2022* Vasily Kandinsky, Dominant Curve, April 1936. Oil on canvas, 50 7/8 x 76 1/2 inches (129.2 x 194.3 cm), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, ParisVasily Kandinsky, Composition 8 (Komposition 8), July 1923. Oil on canvas, 55 1/4 x 79 inches (140.3 x 200.7 cm). Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift 37.262Vasily Kandinsky, Striped, November 1934. Oil with sand on ... read more
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Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

*Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel * *September 19, 2021–January 2, 2022* “CLOSE-UP” brings together nine women artists whose work shares a focus on the depiction of the human figure in the form of portraits and self-portraits, and who occupy prominent positions within the history of modern art from 1870 to the present day. The exhibition centres on the artists’ specific perception, on their personal vision of the world that finds expression in the portraits of themselves and others. By juxtaposing these artists, it becomes possible to understand how the artists’ view of their sub... read more
Art History News5 weeks ago
Surrealism Beyond Borders

*The Metropolitan Museum of Art * *October 11, 2021, through January 30, 2022* *Tate Modern, London* *February 24-August 29, 2022.* Koga Harue's Umi (The Sea) (1929). The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Nearly from its inception, Surrealism has had an international scope, but understanding of the movement has come primarily through a Western European orientation. The major exhibition *Surrealism Beyond Borders *reconsiders the true “movement” of Surrealism beyond boundaries of geography and chronology—presenting it as networks that span Eastern Europe to the Caribbean... read more
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Man Ray: The Paris Years

Self-Portrait with Camera, 1930, Man Ray (American, 1890–1976), solarized gelatin silver print. The Jewish Museum, New York, Photography Acquisitions Committee Fund, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund, and Judith and Jack Stern Gift, 2004-16. © Man Ray 2015 Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY/ADAGP, Paris 2021 The *Virginia Museum of Fine Arts*' upcoming exhibition, *Man Ray: The Paris Years*, will be on view in Richmond from *October 30, 2021, through February 21, 202*2. Organized by Dr. Michael Taylor, VMFA’s Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Art and Education, the exhibition inc... read more
Art History News1 month ago
Norman Rockwell’s Home for Thanksgiving

For years, the painting hung in the hallway of a Massachusetts American Legion Post – alone, unattended, on a wall near the front door. “Where anyone could have walked out with it,” Ken LaBrack says with a small laugh. For years, no one cared too much about the fate of the painting, because they thought it was nothing more than a reproduction of Norman Rockwell’s *Home for Thanksgiving*, which first appeared on the cover of the Nov. 24, 1945, issue of *The* *Saturday Evening Post*. LaBrack, a past commander at the Eugene M. Connor Post 193 of Winchendon, Mass., says it wasn’t u... read more
Art History News1 month ago
Alice Neel: People Come First at the de Young museum in San Francisco.

*Alice Neel: People Come First* will be on view from March 12 through July 10, 2022, at the de Young museum in San Francisco. This exhibition spans the entirety of Neel’s career, from her professional debut in Cuba in the 1920s and her work as part of the W.P.A in the 1930s; through her commitment to centering the figure at a time when abstraction was ascendant, in the 1940s and 1950s; her resurgence in the 1960s and 1970s; and the emergence of her “late style” in the 1980s. Besides foregrounding her often under-recognized artistic accomplishments, *Alice Neel: People Come First ... read more
Art History News1 month ago
Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden

* The Morgan Library & Museum* *October 22, 2021 through January 23, 2022* Building on the Morgan’s tradition of bringing to the American public distinguished works from outstanding institutions abroad, this exhibition focuses on the exceptional graphic collections of the Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden. One of the world’s oldest museums dedicated to works on paper, the Kupferstich-Kabinett was established in 1720 by Augustus II the Strong (r. 1694–1733), Elector of Saxony. Since then, the institution has expanded, weathered the vicissitudes of war, and flourished, ultimately emergi... read more
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Christie's 20th Century Art Evening Sale: Picasso, Monet Property from The Stella Collection Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) *Femme accroupie en costume turc (Jacqueline)* oil on canvas 36 ¼ x 28 ¾ in. (92 x 73 cm.) Painted in 1955 Estimate: $20 million – $30 million \This November, Christie’s New York will offer Pablo Picasso’s *Femme accroupie en costume turc (Jacqueline)*, 1955 (estimate: $20 million - $30 million), a masterpiece that has remained in a private and important collection of a single family for three generations, since 1957 – just two years after its creation. The work wa... read more
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