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Item Number: 132103
Title: A Painter's Progress: A Portrait of LUCIAN FREUD
Author: Dawson, David
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780385354080
Description: New York: Knopf, 2014. 30cm., hardcover, 276pp. illus. Summary: In the early nineties David Dawson, a painter from the Royal College of Art, became Freud’s assistant. Later in that decade David Dawson began to take photographs around the studio. Making these pictures became part of the daily round. David Dawson’s relationship with Freud became even more familiar as he became one of his favourite models. He was not photographing a world he was trying to enter, he was, in fact, recording his own life. He began to accompany Freud on all his excursions. You see Freud in Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid and New York, where he engages with the works of the great masters. These pictures are born of intimacy and unspoken understanding. Here there are no intrusions. He photographed Freud until his death. Each of these photographs is a fragment of a bigger picture that constitutes a portrait of the artist. It provides an unparalleled view of the man and of his work as it moved from the first brush strokes on empty white canvases to the final, layered and astonishing paintings. The photographs will be frequently accompanied throughout the book by David Dawson’s own commentary both on the paintings and their subjects.
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