|
▲ 卢西安·弗洛伊德（1922—2011）｜二十世纪最伟大的艺术家之一，被泰特美术馆誉为“20世纪毕加索之外最伟大的艺术家”的卢西安-弗洛伊德2011年7月20日因病在伦敦家中去世，享年88岁。
■ 卢西安·弗洛伊德 -- 临终前一天 © 一甸艺术｜An art space After nearly six decades in the business, only the rarest piece of news gives William Acquavella pause. The artist Lucian Freud ringing up the normally unflappable dealer to say, “Bill, the painting’s had a sex change,” however, managed to do the trick. Lucian Freud and William Acquavella with Eli, 2011 (photo) by Dawson, David (b.1960); Private Collection; (add.info.: Studio of Lucian Freud (1922-2011), German-born British painter. It was 1998 and Freud was well into painting Large Interior, Notting Hill—a group portrait that pictured the artist’s whippet Pluto lying at the feet of writer Francis Wyndham while Jerry Hall nursed her infant son Gabriel Luke in the background—when Hall failed to appear for two of Freud’s exasperatingly thorough sittings. She had, after all, already visited the artist nearly every day for weeks. ■ 卢西安·弗洛伊德 -- 临终前一天 © 一甸艺术｜An art space “Obviously, Jagger went crazy,” the dealer and art world elder statesman recalled last week, speaking to Vogue.com on the occasion of a new show of Freud’s etchings at the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia. Surrounded by monographs and golf putters in the fourth-floor office of his East Seventy-ninth Street gallery, Acquavella remembers how, having let Jagger out of the deal, “I brought the picture here to New York and thought, ‘How am I ever going to sell this thing?’” To his surprise, the first person who viewed it bought it. ■ 卢西安·弗洛伊德 -- 纪录片 © 那特艺术学院 |
|
|
