For the first time in history the Royal Academy of Arts in
London, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is bringing
together Lucian Freud’s self-portraits.
The exhibition will display more than 50 paintings, prints
and drawings in which this modern master of British art turned his unflinching
eye firmly on himself. One of the most celebrated painters of our time, Lucian
Freud is also one of very few 20th-century artists who portrayed themselves
with such consistency.
Spanning nearly seven decades his self-portraits give a
fascinating insight into both his psyche and his development as a painter, from
his earliest portrait painted in 1939 to the final one executed 64 years later.
When seen together, his portraits represent an engrossing study into the
dynamic of ageing and the process of self-representation. This intensely
compelling exhibition creates a unique opportunity for EXHIBITION ON SCREEN to
reveal the life’s work of a master in one show.