Volume 40, Number 21 · December 16, 1993
Portraits by Freud
By Caroline Blackwood
EXHIBITIONS AND CATALOGS REFERRED TO IN THIS ESSAY
Lucian Freud: Recent Work Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 16, 1993–March 13, 1994; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, April 6–June 13, 1994
at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, September–November 1993; the
Lucian Freud: Recent Work
catalog by Catherine Lampert
Rizzoli/Whitechapel Art Gallery, 192 pp., $50.00
Lucian Freud: Early Works
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, November 23, 1993–January 8, 1994
Those who have recently—and with a certain courage—volunteered to have their portraits painted by Lucian Freud have something in common with the fallen soldier heroes commemorated by the poet Laurence Binyon in 1914. The words, which are enshrined on the myriad graves that overrun the battlefields of the Somme, apply to them:
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