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# Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud Paperback – September 9, 2013

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    View of an artist at work.
  

*by G***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2011*

British art critic Martin Gayford has written of his posing for the late painter, Lucian Freud, in his book, "Man with a Blue Scarf". Both Gayford's writing and the Freud paintings (as well as others referred to in the text) are brilliant. I found this to be a wonderful introduction both to Freud's work and the actual work on the part of both artist and subject.Lucian Freud died in London in July, 2011, at the age of 88. I knew very little about his work and the little I knew of him was basically that he was a grandson of Sigmund Freud and that he had been married to the writer Caroline Blackwood. While looking into books about Freud, I saw this relatively recently published book by Martin Gayford, telling of his serving as a subject for a Freud portrait. In all, Gayford sat for Freud in his London studio about 16 months as Freud painted his portrait. At the same time Freud was painting Gayford, he had several other on-going portraits he was working on.Well, if Freud could paint, Gayford can write. He compares his own sitting as a subject to the other subjects Freud had worked on over the years. Gayford puts styles to pictures and gives a marvelous overview to Freud's long career. In their sittings, Freud and Gayford spent long hours talking about Freud, his career, his life and loves, and his interests in life. While I assume the conversations were two-sided, Gayford recounts the gist of the conversations from Freud's view. And while comparing Freud's work to others, both past and present, who have influenced Freud, the book usually includes pictures of the paintings being written about.Martin Gayford has written not so much an art book, but more a "memoir" of Lucian Freud and these 16 months spent by artist and subject. It's a marvelous book. (As is the finished portrait, which did not go to Gayford, but rather into a collection of a California couple. Evidently, the subject only poses; the finished painting goes elsewhere.)

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    Man With a Blue Scarf:On Sitting For a Portrait by Lucian Freud
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 17, 2010*

Highly recommend!  I  really enjoyed this book!  It's such an interesting and different point of view.  If you love reading about art, if you are interested in Lucien Freud, and if you are interested in the process of making art and what it takes to be a great artist, you should read this book.  The quality of the book is also superb!  The art work is printed in good color and detail, and everything the author is referring to, every art work, even if it's not by Lucien Freud, is included in the book, the page numbers are given, and the art work is located usually right next to the text or on the next page.  Go and get this book, you will enjoy it!

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    Mostly For Artists
  

*by D***1 on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 6, 2014*

I enjoyed this book very much -- probably because it combined two of my interests -- I am an artist and I love biographies.  The reason I gave this book four instead of five stars is that I think it probably doesn't have wide appeal.  It is simply reflections on the life and painting from a noteworthy critic and an extremely talented painter.  Freud's little eccentricities add a bit of flavor to the mix.

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