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Lucian Freud Portraits

This event has now finished Until Sun May 27 National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London, WC2H 0HE Full details & map

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David Dawson, 'Lucian Freud', 2001 - © Crown Copyright: UK Government Art Collection

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A portrait by Lucian Freud matures and grows as much as it is painted. Not only did the reclusive artist spend many hours transferring each sitter's personality and likeness to canvas, he built up the surfaces of his pictures until they took on a life of their own, erupting into nodules and pustules like fungi or real faces. This retrospective of 100 portrait paintings and works on paper brings together Freud's friends, lovers and other associates, including family members and artists such as Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon and David Hockney, while also exploring Freud's stylistic development. The show includes 'Portrait of the Hound' (2011), the painting of Freud's assistant David Dawson with his dog Eli, which was unfinished at the time of the artist's death in July 2011.

To read our review of Lucian Freud Portraits and Drawings go to
www.timeout.com/london/art/article/3146/review-of-lucian-freud-portraits-and-drawings

To view our gallery 'Lucian Freud: A Career in Pictures' go to
www.timeout.com/lucianfreud

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National Portrait Gallery details

National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE

Transport Charing Cross

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020 7306 0055

http://www.npg.org.uk

10am-6pm daily, until 9pm Thu & Fri

£14; £13/£12 concs. Exhibition open until midnight from May 24-26 (tickets available only at npg.org.uk or on 0844 248 5033)

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Comments & ratings 4/5 (Average of 11 ratings)

By Andres - May 23 2012

1/5

This exhibition didn't do any favour to this tiringly derivative one trick pony. If you want fifty brushtrokes of same palette in one face look no further than a Hals, whom a few centuries ago not only had better technique but also DID capture the sitter's psyche.

Immensely overrated in this country. Justly ignored everywhere else.

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By Andy K - Mar 26 2012

5/5

Utterly brilliant, no other artist has ever captured the pleasure and shear horror of human body as perectly as Lucian Freud. One not to miss even at the less than ideal and VERY crowded National Portrait Gallery.