The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Portrait of Ib
1977–78
(British, 1922–2011)
Framed: 63 x 53 x 7 cm (24 13/16 x 20 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 50.7 x 40.6 cm (19 15/16 x 16 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Freud was the grandson of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.Description
One of the greatest realist painters of the 20th century, Lucian Freud combines traditional rendering of the nude figure with modern expressiveness of paint on canvas. Though the artist has always focused on intimate portraits of family and friends, they are rendered with meticulous and sometimes unforgiving detail. This painting depicts Freud’s daughter Isobel as a teenager. For Freud, "the paint is the person," evidenced here in his liberal use of rich impasto.- [James H. Kirkman, London; through Anthony d'Offay, London/Davis & Long, NY]
- Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. Reproduced: cat. no. 56, p. 80; Mentioned: p. 61 www.jstor.org
- Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984)."Lucien Freud," Anthony d'Offay, Ltd., London (Oct. 12 - Nov. 5, 1982)."British Figurative Painting Today," Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn. (Oct. 14, 1981 - Jan. 3, 1982), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif. (Jan. 29 - Mar. 28, 1982).Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1979.15