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Earlier this week I posited that the best Lucian Freud in a U.S. museum collection might be a picture of longtime Freud model Leigh Bowery, titled Nude with Leg Up (1992) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington. Well, if that isn’t the best one, then it’s this picture of longtime Freud model Leigh Bowery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s titled Naked Man, Back View (1991-92). It’s on view now at the Met, here.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.

My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year. Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”

To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program here.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights artist Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.

My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year. Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”

Freud’s most famous late work is likely his 2001 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, shown here.

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Image: Lucian Freud, Queen Elizabeth II (detail), 2001. The Royal Collection, London.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights artist Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.

My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year. Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”

Both Auping and Smee talk with me about how Freud exists outside the usual modernist narrative… but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t occasionally fit right in (albeit over half-a-century late). Take this painting, Standing by the Rags (1988-89), in which Freud flattens space in a manner that recalls an early modernist master. Is Freud’s model lying down? Or is she standing?

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Image: Lucian Freud, Standing by the Rags, 1988-89. Collection of Tate, London.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights artist Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.

My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year. Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”

To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program here.

Image: Lucian Freud, Sunny Morning-Eight Legs, 1952. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Larger JPEG here.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights artist Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.

My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year. Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”

Among the Freud portraits that Auping and I discuss is this one, a rather anti-erotic nude. Why is it so un-erotic? It’s Freud’s daughter, Rose.

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Image: Lucian Freud, Rose, 1978-79.

This early Freud is included in “Lucian Freud: Portraits”, on view now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. MAMFW chief curator Michael Auping worked on the show and Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee knew Freud well. They’re the guests on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast! Download it here. artmastered: Girl with a White Dog by Lucian Freud, 1950 From the Tate: This picture shows the artist’s first wife when she was pregnant. The style of the painting has roots in the smooth and linear portraiture of the great nineteenth-century French neoclassical painter, Ingres. This, together with the particular psychological atmosphere of Freud’s early work, led the critic Herbert Read to make his celebrated remark that Freud was ‘the Ingres of Existentialism’. The sense that Freud gives of human existence as essentially lonely, and spiritually if not physically painful, is something shared by his great contemporaries, Francis Bacon and the sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

This early Freud is included in “Lucian Freud: Portraits”, on view now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. MAMFW chief curator Michael Auping worked on the show and Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee knew Freud well. They’re the guests on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast! Download it here.

artmastered:

Girl with a White Dog by Lucian Freud, 1950

From the Tate: This picture shows the artist’s first wife when she was pregnant. The style of the painting has roots in the smooth and linear portraiture of the great nineteenth-century French neoclassical painter, Ingres. This, together with the particular psychological atmosphere of Freud’s early work, led the critic Herbert Read to make his celebrated remark that Freud was ‘the Ingres of Existentialism’.

The sense that Freud gives of human existence as essentially lonely, and spiritually if not physically painful, is something shared by his great contemporaries, Francis Bacon and the sculptor Alberto Giacometti.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights artist Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.

My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year. Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”

Among the Freud portraits that Auping and I discuss is this one, of a painter friend we’re more used to seeing as a blur…. it’s Francis Bacon!

To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program here.

Image: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, 1952. Collection of Tate, London.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast spotlights artist Lucian Freud, whose paintings are the subject of a major exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London and which is now at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Titled “Lucian Freud: Portraits,” the exhibition is on view at MAMFW through October 28.

My guests are Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, a friend of Freud’s who has written several books on his work, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth chief curator Michael Auping, who helped organize the exhibition and who conducted the last interviews with Freud before his death last year.

Smee and I also discuss art and museums in Boston and New England, and his new e-book, titled “Frame by Frame.”

To download the program directly to your PC/mobile device, click here. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program here.

Image: Lucian Freud, Reflection (Self-Portrait) (detail), 1985.

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