Dimensions: support: 730 x 603 mm frame: 864 x 735 x 79 mm
Copyright: © The estate of Sir Cedric Morris | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: So, this is Sir Cedric Morris's "Lucian Freud," housed here at the Tate. I’m struck by its slightly unsettling vibe; the colors are so muted and the subject's gaze so intense. What do you make of it? Curator: Ah, yes, a truly captivating piece! It's funny, isn't it, how a portrait can feel both intensely personal and strangely detached? Morris’s brushstrokes, those deliberate, almost sculptural applications of paint, seem to capture a certain… vulnerability, perhaps? I also see a story wanting to be told. Does that resonate with you? Editor: Definitely! It's like Freud is holding something back. I see it too. Thanks for sharing your perspective! Curator: My pleasure! It's always fascinating to see how a portrait can evoke such different, yet equally valid, interpretations. Art is a mirror, isn’t it?
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Cedric Morris was fifty-two when he painted this portrait of his nineteen–year–old student, Lucian Freud. In 1939, Freud enrolled at the art school that Morris had founded with Arthur Lett Haines two years earlier. Morris later wrote of him ‘I have always admired his paintings and everything about him .’The intense scrutiny with which Morris has painted Freud is typical of his portraits. This approach would later become fundamental to the work of his former pupil. Gallery label, April 2018
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