Man with a Blue Scarf

On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

Martin Gayford

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Thames & Hudson
15 September 2019

Art & Architecture; Individual artists, art monographs

Lucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their encounters takes us into that most private place, the artist's studio, and to the heart of the working methods of this modern master - both technical and subtly psychological. From this emerges an understanding of what a portrait is, but something else is also built up: a portrait, in words, of Freud himself.

Full of wry and revealing observations, this is a book not quite like any other: the inside story of how it feels to pose for a remarkable artist, and be transformed into a work of art.

By: Martin Gayford
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9780500295182
ISBN 10: 0500295182
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 15 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator. His books include Man with a Blue Scarf, A Bigger Message, and Rendez-vouz with Art (with Philippe de Montebello), and Modernists and Mavericks.

Reviews for Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

'One of the best books about art, and the making of art, that I have ever read' - Julian Barnes 'Freud is vividly surprising, potent and dynamic ... a portrait of an anarchic painter with views on everything from Leonardo’s failings to Princess Margaret’s voice' - Observer 'If it is Freud who dominates this book, it is Gayford’s achievement to bring him out and to do so with wit and humour as well as acute intelligence ... literally inimitable' - Guardian