ArchiveExhibition
Lucian Freud: Real Lives
24 Jul 2021-16 Jan 2022
Tate Liverpool + RIBA North
Liverpool L3 1BP
Overview
Exhibition of Freud’s portraits, featuring many of his friends, family members, fellow artists and lovers.
Lucian Freud (1922 –2011) was a British painter who is widely celebrated for his portraits. A deeply private man, the people in Freud’s paintings were often those closest to him – his friends, family, fellow artists and lovers.
Freud’s portraits are an intensely personal record of the time spent with those who he knew best. The artist had the masterful ability to capture the mood and inner essence of his sitters. Visitors to this exhibition will see paintings, etchings and photographs featuring the artist’s most recognised sitters including his first wife Kitty Garman, his friend and studio assistant David Dawson and performance artist Leigh Bowery.
