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Lucian Freud, né le 8 décembre 1922 à Berlin et mort le 20 juillet 2011 à Londres, est un peintre et graveur figuratif britannique d'origine allemande.

Par son style à la fois réaliste, acéré et presque caricatural, il est considéré comme un des peintres figuratifs les plus importants, et un des plus exemplaires.

Il est notamment célèbre pour avoir peint, en 2001, le portrait de la reine Élisabeth II à l'occasion de son jubilé d'or, tableau qui a soulevé une polémique en Grande-Bretagne.

✵ 8. décembre 1922 – 20. juillet 2011
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Lucian Freud: Citations en anglais

“When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.”

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Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987), p. 20
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)

“I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.”

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Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987), p. 20
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)

“My colour has no symbolic function whatever. I don't want any colour to be noticeable. I want the colour to be the colour of life, so that you would notice it as being irregular if it changed. I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent. I don't want people to say, "Oh, what was that red or that blue picture of yours, I've forgotten what it was."”

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Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987), p. 16
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)

“I paint people not because of what they are like… but how they happen to be.”

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"A Queen of many colours," interview with Martin Gayford, Daily Telegraph, (2006-04-20), p. 3
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“I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen … that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.”

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Interview with Martin Gayford, Independent on Sunday 26 May 2002
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“URGENT SUBTLE CONCISE ROBUST”

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Words cited by Hughes as written by Freud on a wall in his studio.
Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987), p. 22
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)

“I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.”

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Said in conversation with Robert Hughes and quoted in Hughes' Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987) ISBN 0-500-27535-1, p. 14
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)

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