{"product_id":"lucian-freud-drawing-into-painting-9781855148253","title":"Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: National Portrait Gallery Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: National Portrait Gallery Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Portraits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Howgate\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Curator of Contemporary Collections at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Her previous exhibitions and publications include \u003ci\u003eJenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting\u003c\/i\u003e (2025), \u003ci\u003eDavid Hockney: Drawing from Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eTacita Dean: Landscape, Portrait, Still Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eGillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eFriendship Portraits: Chantal Joffe and Isabel Myerscough\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eLucian Freud Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), and \u003ci\u003eDavid Hockney Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e (2006).  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTanya Bentley\u003c\/b\u003e is Curator, Contemporary, at the National Portrait Gallery, London. She has contributed to recent publications including \u003ci\u003eFrancis Bacon: Human Presence\u003c\/i\u003e (2024), \u003ci\u003eIcons \u0026amp; Identities\u003c\/i\u003e (2020), \u003ci\u003eTacita Dean: Landscape, Portrait, Still Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and \u003ci\u003eGillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). She is curator of a three-year rotating display (20232026) of materials from the Lucian Freud Archive held at the National Portrait Gallery. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Dawson\u003c\/b\u003e studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art and at the Royal College of Art. He met Lucian Freud soon after he had completed his Master's degree, and began to work as his studio assistant. In 2000, he began photographing daily life in Freud's studio, documenting the progress of Freud's work and recording the artist with his sitters. Dawson worked with Freud until the artist's death in 2011, during which time he was himself a sitter for Freud on numerous occasions. He is a co-editor of the Phaidon publication \u003ci\u003eLucian Freud\u003c\/i\u003e and of \u003ci\u003eLove Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 19391954\u003c\/i\u003e, both released in 2022.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBella Freud\u003c\/b\u003e, former sitter for her late father Lucian Freud, is a lauded designer. Establishing her namesake label in 1990, she has moved between the mediums of clothing design, interior design, perfume making, filmmaking and publishing. She has shot three films directed by the actor John Malkovich; printed a magazine entitled \u003ci\u003eMemo with the late Anita Pallenberg\u003c\/i\u003e; and designed limited-edition knitwear with singer-songwriter Nick Cave.  Her own clothing designs have garnered a cult following amongst the likes of Kate Moss, Tilda Swinton, Juliette Lewis, Zadie Smith, Sienna Miller, Gabrielle Union, Olivia Wilde and Rebecca Hall. She is also the creator and presenter of the podcast Fashion Neurosis.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCatherine Lampert\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent art historian and curator. She worked at the Hayward Gallery until 1998 and was Director of the Whitechapel Gallery from 1988 to 2001. She has authored and contributed to many books, including \u003ci\u003eJohn Walker\u003c\/i\u003e (Thames \u0026amp; Hudson, 2025), \u003ci\u003ePeter Doig\u003c\/i\u003e (Courtauld, 2023) and \u003ci\u003eHurvin Anderson\u003c\/i\u003e (Rizzoli, 2022); and was co-author, with Toby Treves, of the 1200-page \u003ci\u003eLucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings\u003c\/i\u003e (Modern Art Press, 2025). A sitter for Frank Auerbach from 1978 until the artist's death in 2024, Lampert was most recently curator of the exhibition Frank Auerbach at Galerie Michael Werner, Berlin (2025).  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIsabel Seligman\u003c\/b\u003e is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the British Museum and was lead curator of the exhibition Hew Locke: what have we here? (2024). Other recent exhibitions and publications include \u003ci\u003eDrawing Attention: Emerging British Artists\u003c\/i\u003e (British Museum, 2022), \u003ci\u003ePushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now\u003c\/i\u003e (Thames and Hudson, 2019), \u003ci\u003eLines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now\u003c\/i\u003e (Thames and Hudson, 2016), and contributions to \u003ci\u003eDavid Hockney: Drawing from Life\u003c\/i\u003e (National Portrait Gallery, 2020) and \u003ci\u003eThe American Dream: Pop to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e (Thames and Hudson, 2017). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e (Picador, 2004), \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e (Viking, 2009), \u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e (Viking, 2021) and \u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e (Picador, 2024), and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and his work has been translated into over 30 languages. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was the Laureate for Irish Fiction 20224.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"National Portrait Gallery Publications","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47564982976663,"sku":"9781855148253","price":2645.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781855148253.webp?v=1774695970","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/lucian-freud-drawing-into-painting-9781855148253","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}