Lucian Freud: Portraits
Note this lecture is on the second Wednesday of the month.
Wednesday 9th March 2022
Girl with a White Dog, 1951–1952
© Tate Gallery
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Lydia Baumann
Lucian Freud was a British artist.
“I’ve always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It’s people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories” (Lucian Freud )
In this lecture Lydia Bauman will trace Freud’s development as a portrait painter and question just how much he tells us about his sitters.
Lydia was born in Poland. She studied for her BA in Fine Art at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and for an MA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute in London. She has lectured to diverse adult audiences, notably in London’s National Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston USA. Herself a landscape painter, Lydia is the author of the forthcoming book Great Themes in Art.
