Prize

• Shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2022,
  in the Scholarly, Academic and Reference Book category

 

Reviews

‘The book is a sumptuous production, in large format, 350 by 400 mm,
housed in a slipcase with a full-page reproduction of each of the 112 prints …
This publication is a fitting testament to Freud’s contribution to print and an excellent scholarly resource’ – Paul Coldwell, Print Quarterly, vol. 40, June 2023

 

‘Publisher and authors have done admirably by one of Britain’s most distinguished artists
with this impeccable, rigorous and beautiful book’ –
Alexander Adams, The British Art Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, autumn 2022

 

Summary

• The book records in one volume for the first time every print Freud made – from the first linocut of 1936 to his last etching published in 2007. The first volume of the Lucian Freud catalogue raisonné focuses on the artist’s prints. 

• The art historian Toby Treves’s catalogue entries are informed by his knowledge of the wider oeuvre as a former collections curator of twentieth-century British Art at Tate and co-author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Lucian Freud’s paintings.

• An essay by the critic and Freud specialist Sebastian Smee, and an account of working with Freud by his main printmaker, Marc Balakjian, provide further insights.