4:56pm
Tomorrow, the National Portrait Gallery, London, opens a major survey exhibition of Lucian Freud’s portraits including Portrait of the Hound 2011. This is Freud’s last, unfinished painting of his assistant David Dawson and his dog Eli that he was working on shortly before his death on 20 July 2011. It serves as an eerie reminder of Freud’s unrelenting dedication to his work. ‘Lucian Freud Portraits’ is the first major exhibition dedicated to the artist’s work in ten years and provides a rare opportunity to see works loaned from museums and private collections throughout the world. It is the result...
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Nicola McCartney 4:21pm
A few weeks ago I attended an interesting talk about the overlooked artist Edward Burra (1905-76) at London Art Fair. Apollo’s Editor, Oscar Humphries, chaired the discussion around Burra’s biography, his paintings’ market value and position within modern British art. The panel included art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon and Simon Martin, the curator of Burra’s retrospective currently held at Pallant House (until 19 February 2012). What I learned, is that Burra’s bright and primitive watercolours were both inhibited and aided by his life-long suffering with anemia and rheumatic fever – the disability meant that he was better apt at dealing with...
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